Motivational Quotes: Leonardo Da Vinci

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

Leonardo da Vinci

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."

Leonardo da Vinci

"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else."

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Leonardo da Vinci

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

Leonardo da Vinci

"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time."

Leonardo da Vinci

"Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge."

Leonardo da Vinci

"Life well spent is long."

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Leonardo da Vinci

"He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year."

Leonardo da Vinci

"Nature never breaks her own laws."

Leonardo da Vinci

"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects."

Leonardo da Vinci

"Tears come from the heart and not from the brain."

Leonardo da Vinci

"The natural desire of good men is knowledge."

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Leonardo da Vinci

"The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything. "

Leonardo da Vinci

"How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting."

Leonardo da Vinci