Quotes about reading

Read no less than ½ hour a day or listen to audiobooks while in the car or cleaning the house. Biographies of great people taught me, as I said, that even eminent people fail but keep getting up.

Tony Robbins

Reading is the least laborious of all the tasks that fall to the student’s lot.

Quintilian

A book worth reading is worth buying.

John Ruskin

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Dr. Seuss

I am a stupendously fast reader and always have been. I can read in at least three languages fluently and two languages with a little bit more difficulty.

Michael Korda

If you read one hour per day in your field, that will translate into about one book per week. One book per week translates into about 50 books per year. 50 books per year will translate into about 500 books over the next ten years.

Brian Tracy

Don’t listen to the cynics. They’re cynics for a reason. For them, the resistance won a long time ago. When the resistance tells you not to listen to something, read something, or attend something, go. Do it. It’s not an accident that successful people read more books.

Seth Godin

For a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‘Here I am, read me.’ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

Maya Angelou

Be mindful 24 hours a day, not just during the one hour you may allot for formal meditation or reading scripture and reciting prayers. Each act must be carried out in mindfulness.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

Arthur Schopenhauer