Inspirational Reading Quotes

Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

The most important habit is solitude, quiet time. People who enter their day by taking 45 minutes or an hour for themselves - meditation, prayer, inspirational reading, taking a walk - before they go for it in the real world do best.

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.

You may have tangible wealth untold: Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be I had a Mother who read to me.

Richer than I you can never be, I had a mother who read to me.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

The man who never reads lives only one.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Love of books is the best of all.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

A great book should leave you with many experiences.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

The more you read, the more things you will know.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.