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Top 100 Famous Quotes of all time

"A little learning is a dangerous thing."
Alexander Pope

"A mind always employed is always happy."
Thomas Jefferson

"A picture is worth a thousand words."
Fred R. Barnard

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
John Keats

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."
Erica Jong

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing."
Abraham Lincoln

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
Winston Churchill

"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
M.K. Gandhi

"An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously."
Charles F. Kettering

"Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country."
John F. Kennedy

"Believe that you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact."
Norman Vincent Peale

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
André Gide

"Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future."
John F. Kennedy

"A mind always employed is always happy."
Thomas Jefferson

"Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
Benjamin Franklin

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing."
Albert Schweitzer

"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."
George Washington

"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
Alexander Pope

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
John F. Kennedy

"God helps them that help themselves."
Benjamin Franklin

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
Winston Churchill

"He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing."
Benjamin Franklin

"He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword."
Jesus Christ

"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it easier to do it a second time."
Thomas Jefferson

"Hitch your wagon to a star."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Home is the place, when you have to go there; they have to take you in."
Robert Frost

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have."
Abraham Lincoln

"I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it."
Edith Sitwell

"I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe."
Albert Einstein

"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter."
Blaise Pascal

"I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Thomas Edison

"I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."
Albert Einstein

"I want to know God’s thoughts… the rest are details."
Albert Einstein

"I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer."
Aryeh Frimer

"If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."
Isaac Newton

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
Mother Teresa

"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."
Harry S. Truman

"If you have to ask how much something costs, you can't afford it."
J. P. Morgan

"If you would be loved, love and be lovable."
Benjamin Franklin

"If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there."
Will Rogers

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."
Oscar Wilde

"In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried."
Winston Churchill

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
Aristotle

"It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark."
Howard Ruff

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."
Vince Lombardi

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
Mark Twain

"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer."
Sun-Tzu

"Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier'n puttin' it back in."
Will Rogers

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
Albert Einstein

"Love your neighbor - but don't pull down your hedge."
Benjamin Franklin

"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
William Shakespeare

"Nature abhors a vacuum."
Francois Rabelas

"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."
Napoleon Bonaparte

"Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake."
Napoleon Bonaparte

"Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day."
Thomas Jefferson

"No man is justified in doing evil on the grounds of expediency."
Theodore Roosevelt

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs"
Henry Ford

"Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat."
Rudyard Kipling

"Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find."
John F. Kennedy

"One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't."
George Bernard Shaw

"Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once."
Winston Churchill

"Power Corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Lord Acton

"Religion is the opiate of the people."
Karl Marx

"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."
Albert Einstein

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em."
William Shakespeare

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."
Francis Bacon

"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
Theodore Roosevelt

"Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing."
Winston Churchill

"That which doesn't kill us makes us stronger."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"The Almighty has his own purposes."
Abraham Lincoln

"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."
Theodore Roosevelt

"The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason."
Benjamin Franklin

"The buck stops here."
Harry S. Truman

"The child is father of the man."
William Wordsworth

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."
Vince Lombardi

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
Albert Einstein

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
Albert Einstein

"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."
Winston Churchill

"The language of friendship is not words, but meanings."
David Henry Thoreau

"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end."
Benjamin Disraeli

"The pen is mightier than the sword."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

"The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking."
Albert Einstein

"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor."
Vince Lombardi

"The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket."
Will Rogers

"The time to repair a roof is when the sun is shining."
John F. Kennedy

"There are no gains without pains."
Benjamin Franklin

"There never was a good war or a bad peace."
Benjamin Franklin

"Time is money."
Benjamin Franklin

"To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace."
George Washington

"To err is human, to forgive divine."
Alexander Pope

"We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect."
David Henry Thoreau

"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve."
Napoleon Hill

"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Whenever you do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly."
Thomas Jefferson

"Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."
Vince Lombardi

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
Abraham Lincoln

"You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want."
Zig Ziglar

"You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."
Abraham Lincoln


Famous Quotes

"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."
- Mother Teresa

"When I started out. I'd drive a hundred miles to do my act for free."
- Jim Carrey

"This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one..."
- George Bernard Shaw

"We are what we pretend to be. So we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

"It is difficult to live in the present.
Ridiculous to live in the future. And impossible to live in the past."
-Jim Bishop

"Action springs not from thought. But from a readiness for responsibility."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly."
- Langston Hughes

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."
- Thomas Edison

"A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it."
- Alistair Cooke

"If something comes to life in others because of us,
then we have made an approach to immortality."
- Norman Cousins

"Your current conditions do not reflect your ultimate potential, but rather the size and quality of goals upon which you are currently focusing"
- Unknown

"Make big plans; Aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die."
- Daniel Burnham

"I feel the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have."
- Louis E. Boone

"All human progress is preceded by new questions."
- Anthony Robbins

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing."
- Abraham Lincoln

"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it."
- Lou Holtz

"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther."
- Thomas Carlyle

"Adventure is worthwhile in itself."
- Amelia Earhart

"Dreams have as much influence as actions."
- Stephane Mallarme

"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom."
- Theodore Isaac Rubin

"Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open."
- Rose Lane

"Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of with the world looking on."
- Francois, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

"The stakes are much too high for government to be a spectator sport."
- Barbara Jordan

"Results? Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know 50,000 things that won't work."
- Thomas A. Edison

"Blessed is the person who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
- George Eliot

"There is no security on this earth: There is only opportunity."
- General Douglas MacArthur

"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."
- Max DuPree

"Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."
- Dag Hammarskjold

"All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so as of now."
- Pearl S. Buck

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"A hero is a man or woman who defies adversity by doing what he or she believes is right in spite of fear."
- Unknown

"The innovator is not an opponent of the old. He is a proponent of the new."
- Lyle E. Schaller

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."
- Rodin

"From now on, any definition of a successful life, must include serving others."
- George Bush

"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
- William Ellery Channing

"Great minds have purposes. Little minds have wishes."
- Washington Irving

"Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous: It is nothing if it is not ridiculous."
- Thornton Wilder

"Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it."
- Unknown

"The man who is waiting for something to turn up might start on his shirt sleeves."
- Garth Henrichs

"Those who stand for nothing, fall for anything."
- Alexander Hamilton

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"You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."
- Woodrow Wilson

"The highest reward fo a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it."
- John Ruskin

"One who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without."
- Goethe

"Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are."
- John Dykes

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece!"
- Unknown

"Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for."
- David Starr Jordan

"Never cut down a tree in the wintertime: never make a negative decision in the low time."
- Robert H. Schuller

"It is not doing the things we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do that makes life blessed."
- Goethe

"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."
- Will Rogers

"Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear."
- Unknown