Leonardo Da Vinci on Purpose Quotes

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master."

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

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

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

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

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

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

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

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