Top 54 H. G. Wells Quotes on Life (INSPIRATION)

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Top 14 Most Famous H. G. Wells Quotes (BEST)

“There is no upper limit to what individuals are capable of doing with their minds. There is no age limit that bars them from beginning. There is no obstacle that cannot be overcome if they persist and believe.”
H. G. Wells

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams. — We all have our **time** machines. Some take us back, they’re called **memories**. Some take us forward, they’re called **dreams**.

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

The true strength of the human intellect lies not in seeing what is immediately before us, but in anticipating what comes next. — The true **strength** of the human intellect lies not in seeing what is immediately before us, but in anticipating what comes next.

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery. — We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a **miracle** and mystery.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break. — Let your **love** be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the **wisdom** of **compromise**, for it is better to bend a little than to break.

The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.

Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are. — Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you’ve been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. — Human history becomes more and more a race between **education** and catastrophe.

If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel. — Losing your way on a **journey** is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a **fate** more cruel.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. — The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any **chance** ever observes.

20 Inspirational H. G. Wells Quotes About Life

“The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than ‘the gang in possession,’ and its days are numbered.”
H. G. Wells

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done. — Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your **purpose** is done.

When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.

“Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.”
H. G. Wells

If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve. — If your life doesn’t end in failure, you haven’t reached high enough. So it was **failure** I had to achieve.

If the world does not please you, you can change it. — If the world does not please you, you can **change** it.

Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be. — **Success** is to be measured not by **wealth**, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.

You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.

If we don't end war, war will end us. — If we don’t end war, war will end us.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. — **Beauty** is in the heart of the beholder.

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit. — **Leaders** should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. — No **passion** in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.

He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.

Once you lose yourself, you have two choices find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely. — Once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. — Moral indignation is **jealousy** with a halo.

20 H. G. Wells Quotes that Will Make You Think

“The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it?”
H. G. Wells

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community. — Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

“A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.”
H. G. Wells

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. — Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the **future** of the human race.

“While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.”
H. G. Wells

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. — Adapt or perish, now as ever, is **nature’s** inexorable imperative.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

“There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.”
H. G. Wells

Cynicism is humor in ill health. — Cynicism is **humor** in ill **health**.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law. — The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays **golf** – it’s almost a law.

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have. — Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

“The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.”
H. G. Wells