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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.
Life and Living
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
Faith
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
Ideas
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
Books - Reading
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
Children
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
Truth
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.
Advertising
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Speech
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
Vision
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.
Achievement
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Studying
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Age and Aging
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
Idleness
Sherlock Holmes

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The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
Theory
Sherlock Holmes

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Carve every word before you let it fall.
Thoughts and Thinking
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
Passion
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Ghosts only exist for those who wish to see them.
Spirit and Spirituality
Holtei

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Work your way up or rust your way out.
Work
Holton

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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
Coaches and Coaching
Lou Holtz

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.
Action
Lou Holtz

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I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
Potential
Lou Holtz

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If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.
Hiring
Lou Holtz

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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Critics and Criticism
Lou Holtz

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Action
Lou Holtz

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.
Thoughts and Thinking
Jenny Holzer

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun