Famous Quotes quotes
1090 quotes. Authors include A. A. Milne, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, A. Powell Davies, Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Maslow, Aesop, Agatha Christie, Alan Cohen, Alan Watts, Albert Camus, Albert Einstein, Albert Schweitzer, Aldous Huxley, Alexander Chalmers, Alexander Pope, Alexander the Great, Alexis Carrel, Alfred Adler, Alfred Korzybski, Alfred Tennyson, Alice Walker, Ambrose Bierce, Amelia Earhart, Amy Bloom, Amy Poehler, Amy Tan, Anatole France, Anaïs Nin, Andy Rooney, Anne Bradstreet.
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“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”
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“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
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“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has.”
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“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”
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“There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life.”
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“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.”
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“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.”
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“Time is the wisest counsellor of all.”
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“Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.”
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“Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!”
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“To hell with circumstances, I create opportunities.”
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“To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else.”
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“Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.”
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“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.”
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“It isn't where you come from, it's where you're going that counts.”
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“Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.”
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“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
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“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”
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“There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.”
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“When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.”
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“Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.”
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“Go to your bosom: Knock there and ask your heart what it doth know.”
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“I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.”
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“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”
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“Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.”
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“Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.”
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“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.”
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“When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”
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“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
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“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”
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“Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.”
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“Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.”
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“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
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“You're never a loser until you quit trying.”
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“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
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“The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.”
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“Life is movement-we breathe, we eat, we walk, we move!”
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“Light tomorrow with today!”
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“The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.”
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“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”
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“When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.”
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“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”
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“He who angers you conquers you.”
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“We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.”
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“There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.”
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“It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own.”
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“You give before you get.”
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“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red spotlight... The truly wise person is color-blind.”
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“People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.”
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“The winner ain't the one with the fastest car it's the one who refuses to lose.”