Great Quotes

"To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live." - Dorothy West

"The truth is generally seen, rarely heard." - Baltasar Gracián

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” - Viktor E. Frankl

“A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Sometimes it’s not good enough to do your best; you have to do what’s required.” - Winston Churchill

“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.” - Marcus Aurelius

"We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training." - Archilochus

"Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming." - John Wooden

“Remind yourself that your task is to be a good human being; remind yourself what nature demands of people. Then do it, without hesitation, and speak the truth as you see it. But with kindness. With humility. Without hypocrisy.”

—Marcus Aurelius

"Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself." - Publilius Syrus

"No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it." - George Washington Carver

"The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato--the best part underground." - Sir Thomas Overbury

“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.” - Seneca

"I have no special talents. I am just passionately curious." - Albert Einstein

"The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better." - Richard Rohr

“You understand so little of what is around you because you do not use what is within you.” - Hildegard of Bingen

"Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett

“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery it would not seem so wonderful at all.” - Michelangelo

"Be so good they can't ignore you." - Steve Martin

"Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you." - Rob Gilbert

"It is not that we are given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it." - Seneca

“Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.” - Tom Stoppard

“If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” - Confucius

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” - Kurt Vonnegut

"If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old." - Lord Chesterfield

"You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims." - Harriet Woods

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen." - Michael Jordan

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson

"Create your future from your future, not from your past." - Werner Erhard

"The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work." - Mark Twain

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt." - Shakespeare

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." - Maya Angelou

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." - Sir Winston Churchill

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." - Benjamin Franklin

"The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented." - Dennis Gabor

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less." - C.S. Lewis

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." - Thomas Edison

"Tough times never last, but tough people do." - Dr. Robert Schuller

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." - Mark Twain

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make a mistake." - Elbert Hubbard

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." - Albert Einstein

"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." - James B. Conant

"You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might." - Henry David Thoreau

"The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them." - Jim Rohn

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill

"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us." - Voltaire

"Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would." - Nelson Mandela

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily." - Zig Ziglar

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers

"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times" - Aeschylus

"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do." - Voltaire

"I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was." - Muhammad Ali

"Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped." - African Proverb

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently." - Henry Ford

"Kites rise highest against the wind--not with it." - Winston Churchill

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized." - Sun Tzu

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out." - Titus Livius

"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is." - H. Jackson Brown

"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing." - Harriet Braiker

"Obstacles are those frightening things that become visible when we take our eyes off our goals." - Henry Ford

"Make the most of the best and the least of the worst." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too." - Thomas Fuller

"At high tide the fish eat ants; at low tide the ants eat fish." - Thai Proverb

"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it." - Albert Einstein

"I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." - Michael Jordan

"Success is achieved by development of our strengths, not by elimination of our weakness." - Marilyn Vos Savant

"The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions." - Confucius

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that we aim too high and we miss it, but we aim too low and reach it." - Michelangelo

"Act the way you'd like to be, and soon you'll be the way you act." - Leonard Cohen

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, but a matter of choice." - William Jennings

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." - Helen Keller

"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle." - Erin Majors

"I am not what happened to me; I am what I choose to become." - Carl Jung

"Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln

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

"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." - Oscar Wilde

"It's not that I'm so smart; it's just that I stay with problems longer ." - Albert Einstein

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

"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." - Christopher Columbus

"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of travelling." - Margaret B. Runbeck

"Some people grumble because roses have thorns; I am thankful that the thorns have roses." - Alphonse Karr

"It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult." - Seneca

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” - Albert Einstein

"Let a man lose everything else in the world but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success." - H. W. Arnold

"Chance favors the prepared mind." - Louis Pasteur

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. “ - Ambrose Redmoon

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials." - Confucius

"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." - Lao-Tsu

"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?" - Abraham Lincoln

"A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful the way you lean." - The Lorax

“We all have a choice: a choice to be powerful or pitiful.” - Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach

“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that, while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.” - Charles Dickens

"If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit." - Banksy

"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run." - Henry David Thoreau