Leo Tolstoy Quotes

7 quotes from Leo Tolstoy on investing and motivation.

On investing

• Wealth and power and life, all that men build up and guard with such effort, is only worth anything through the joy with which it can all be cast away.

On motivation

• I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness.

• The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

• He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

• If you want to be happy, be.

• True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

• Life did not stop, and one had to live.