Quotes from Albert Einstein

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.

My success wasn't so much due to intelligence, but the fact that I stuck with problems longer.

I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas.

What is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?

When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. And now see what has become of me.

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.

Children don't heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

I get the most joy in life out of music.

Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.

Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life. Make things as simple as possible..but not simpler.

If you've never failed, you've never tried anything new.

Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included.

There are actually two approaches to reside your daily life. One is as if absolutely nothing is really a miracle. The other is as if every little thing is a wonder

Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!

I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.

Life is like riding a bicycle. If you want to stay balanced you've got to keep moving forward.

Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative.

Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.

You can move through life seeing nothing as a miracle, or seeing everything as a miracle.

Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all.

One lives one's life under constant tension, until it's time to go for good

I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.

What I value in life is quality rather then quantity.

It would be better if you began to teach others only after you yourself have learned something.