Reading is not just a hobby; it's a lifestyle. Reading can transport you to different worlds and teach you valuable life lessons. Here are 50 of the most motivational quotes for readers to inspire them to read more books:
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." - Dr. Seuss
"The person who doesn't read has no advantage over the person who can't read." - Mark Twain
"Books are a uniquely portable magic." - Stephen King
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one." - George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." - Richard Steele
"One must always be careful of books and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us." - Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
"A book is a dream that you hold in your hands." - Neil Gaiman
"The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think." - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." - Saint Augustine
"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all." - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
"Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary." - Jim Rohn
"The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking." - Albert Einstein
"Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled 'This could change your life.'" - Helen Exley
"Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere." - Mary Schmich
"Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own." - Charles Scribner Jr.
"The greatest gift is a passion for reading." - Elizabeth Hardwick
"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it." - Edward P. Morgan
"A book is like a garden, carried in the pocket." - Chinese Proverb
"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition." - Henry Miller
"Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life." - Mortimer J. Adler
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." - Charles W. Eliot
"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"A book is a device to ignite the imagination." - Alan Bennett
"A good book is an event in my life." - Stendhal
"There is no friend as loyal as a book." - Ernest Hemingway
"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home." - Anna Quindlen
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." - Groucho Marx
"A book is like a friend. We turn to it for comfort and wisdom. It offers us insight into the world around us." - Daniel Pennac
"Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back." - John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
"The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library." - Albert Einstein
"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading." - William Styron
"Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them." - George Saunders
"Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry." - Umberto Eco
"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already." - George Orwell, 1984
"I cannot live without books." - Thomas Jefferson
"The only thing better than a good book is a good friend." - Unknown
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." - Charles W. Eliot
"A house without books is like a room without windows." - Horace Mann
"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it." - Oscar Wilde
"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life." - W. Somerset Maugham
"Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again." - Louisa May Alcott
"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you." - Mortimer J. Adler
"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves." - Anna Quindlen
"The best way to predict your future is to create it." - Peter F. Drucker
"A library is a hospital for the mind." - Anonymous
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one." - George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." - Charles W. Eliot
"The world was hers for the reading." - Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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