Inspiration Quote by John Steinbeck — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave.”

“You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.”

“Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know.”

“I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention,help,and conversation is to be lost.A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost”

“Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or clearer thoughts now than when you were ten? Do you see as well, hear as well, taste as vitally?”

“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”

“Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.”

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.”

“We must become the change we want to see.”

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”

“Respect is not something that you can ask for, buy or borrow. Respect is what you earn from each person no matter their background or status.”