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 greatest remedy for anger is delay.”
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“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”
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“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.”
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“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
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“Ignorance never settles a question.”
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“Compassion and happiness are not a sign of weakness but a sign of strength.”
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“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”
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“Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.”
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“Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.”
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“If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.”
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“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”
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“Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.”
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“It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.”
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“Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.”
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“You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you.”
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“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
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“Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.”
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“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”
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“Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.”
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“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
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“Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.”
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“Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
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“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”
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“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
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“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”
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“The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.”
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“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”
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“While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.”
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“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.”
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“Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.”
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“It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.”
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“We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”
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“Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.”
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“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
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“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
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“I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.”
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“The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.”
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“The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
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“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”
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“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”