23 Motivational Quotes by Novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne: Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer. He was born as Nathaniel Hathorne in Salem, Massachusetts in 1804. He published his first novel Fanshawe in 1828. Here are 23 best motivational quotes of Nathaniel Hawthorne:
1. Moonlight is sculpture; Sunlight is painting.
2. Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
3. A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.
4. Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
5. We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
6. There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
7. A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
8. Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
9. A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
10. It was strange to see that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints.
11. Evil is the nature of manking.
12. Peradventure the guilty one stands looking on at this sad spectacle, unknown of man, and forgetting that God sees him.
13. There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
14. We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
15. To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
16. We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
17. Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
18. The love of science to rival the love of woman, in its depth and absorbing energy.
19. Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
20. New England is quite as large a lump of earth as my heart can really take in.
21. There is no such thing in man’s nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.
22. The devil himself gets into my inkstand.
23. If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
