Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.'s Popular Quotes

Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not fre…

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.