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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“Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.”
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“Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.”
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“Go put your creed into the deed. Nor speak with double tongue.”
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“It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.”
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“Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.”
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“The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream.”
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“We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.”
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“All great achievements require time.”
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“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
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“Nothing happens unless first we dream.”
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“All is flux; nothing stays still.”
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“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”
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“The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.”
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“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.”
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“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”
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“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
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“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”
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“Mind is everything: muscle, pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.”
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“There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.”
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“We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.”
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“Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
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“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
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“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”
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“The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.”
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“All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.”
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“Never mistake activity for achievement.”
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“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”
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“There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.”
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“Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.”
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“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.”
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“God always takes the simplest way.”
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“We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.”
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“All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.”
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“Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.”
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“I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.”
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“The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.”
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“Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.”
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“Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.”
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“All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.”
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“A man is great by deeds, not by birth.”
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“We can only learn to love by loving.”
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“Just as much as we see in others, we have in ourselves.”
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“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”
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“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.”
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“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.”
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“When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.”
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“Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted.”
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“To dare is to lose ones footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.”
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“Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.”
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“The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.”