Quotes about reading

I am old-fashioned, or sentimental, or something, about books! Whenever I read one I want, in the first place, to enjoy myself, and, in the next place, to feel that I am a little better and not a little worse for having read it.

Theodore Roosevelt

Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

Benjamin Franklin

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the unsolved ones.

Abraham Lincoln

Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, ‘We don’t teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice people.’ Wow! What a clever short cut.

Jim Rohn

While their competition is asleep, world-class leaders are up – and they’re not watching the news or reading the paper. They are thinking, planning and practicing.

Robin Sharma

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Francis Bacon

I always believe leaders are readers, so you’ve got to read 30 minutes a day of something that’s going to inspire you.

Tony Robbins

If you want to build a positive attitude, then associate with people of high moral character and read books that lead you to positive thinking.

Shiv Khera

I never set limits or created mental barriers. You may have read that I imagined my biceps as big as mountain peaks when I did my curling exercises. This visualization process was essential if I was to gain the kind of mass and size I needed to win the mr Olympia contest against monsters like Sergio Olivia and Lou ferrigno.

Arnold Schwarzenegger