Leonardo Da Vinci on Purpose Quotes

"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in."

"Obstacles do not bend me. Every endeavor is made through effort."

"Shun those studies in which the result dies with the worker."

"The merit of the spirit is to be found in the work."

"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve."

"Life well spent is long."

"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself."

"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."

"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind."

"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."

"He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."

"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it."

"Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose."

"He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder."

"A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not."

"Every action needs to be prompted by a motive."

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."

"Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death."

"The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands."

"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."

"Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve."

"Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs."

"The natural desire of good men is knowledge."

"God sells us all things at the price of labor."