Michelangelo Inspirational Quotes

Quotes about: Inspirational

• The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

• The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

• If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Mastery, Genius

  As quoted in "Speeches & Presentations Unzipped" by Lori Rozakis, (p. 71), 2007.

• If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Art

• He who follows another will never overtake him

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational

• My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Beauty, Heaven

• The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Artist, Form

  Sonnet 15 (translation by Elizabeth Jennings)

• The hand that follows intellect can achieve.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Hands, Achieve

  c.1538 Quoted in Robert J Clements (ed) Michelangelo: A Self- Portrait (1968).

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin