23 Best Motivational Quotes by Harper Lee: The real name of Harper Lee is Nelle Harper Lee. He was an American novelist. Her novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. Here are top 23 best motivational quotes by Harper Lee.
1. Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
2. There is a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible.
3. People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
4. Writing is simply something you must do. It’s rather like virtue in that it is its own reward.
5. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
6. Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
7. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
8. There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.
9. I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year.
10. Things are always better in the morning.
11. When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.
12. People in their right minds never take pride in their parents.
13. The time your friends need you is when they’re wrong, Jean Louise. They don’t need you when they’re right.
14. As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man in man, history is the last place he’ll look for his lessons.
15. Remember this also: it’s always easy to look back and see what we were, yesterday, ten years ago. It is hard to see what we are. If you can master that trick, you’ll get along.
16. Don’t you study about other folks’ business till you take care of your own.
17. Finders were keepers unless title was proven.
18. Go away, the old buildings said. There is no place for you here. You are not wanted. We have secrets.
19. I was taught never to take advantage of anybody who was less fortunate than myself, whether he be less fortunate in brains, wealth, or social position; it meant anybody…
20. They’re ugly, but those are the facts of life.
21. One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can’t do anything about them.
22. Autumn was her happiest season.
23. Don’t you study about other folks’ business till you take care of your own.
