The 125+ Most Famous Quotes of All Time

Quotes by Famous People [famous people quote]

1. Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.  – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
2. Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.  – Rabindranath Tagore
3. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.  – Walt Disney
4. For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn’t about conquering something; it’s being happy with who you are.  – Britney Spears
5. No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.  – Abraham Lincoln
6. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.  – Steve Jobs
7. The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.  – Mark Zuckerberg
8. I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.  – Alexander the Great
9. If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.  – Eleanor Roosevelt
10. Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.  – John Lennon
11. If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.  – Elon Musk
12. Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.  –  Barack Obama
13. A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.  – Jeff Bezos
14. Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.  – Bill Gates
15. If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.  – James Cameron
16. The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.  – Bob Marley
17. If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.  – Emily Dickinson
18. If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.  – Bruce Lee
19. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.  – Nelson Mandela
20. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.  – Henry Ford
21. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.  – J. K. Rowling
22. Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying. – Martin Luther
23. If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.  – Oprah Winfrey 

Best Quotes of All Time

1. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.  – Helen Keller
2. Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.  – Mother Teresa
3. Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.  – Joseph Campbell
4. It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.  – Aristotle Onassis
5. When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.  – Franklin D. Roosevelt
6. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.  – Robert Louis Stevenson
7. Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.  – Margaret Mead
8. Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.  – Marcel Proust
9. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.  – Edmund Burke
10. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.  – Robert Louis Stevenson
11. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.  – Swami Vivekananda
12. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.  – Eleanor Roosevelt
13. The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.  – Thomas Paine
14. You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.  – Desmond Tutu
15. Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.  – Benjamin Franklin
16. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.  – Helen Keller
17. It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.  – Aristotle
18. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.  – Nelson Mandela
19. Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.  – Loretta Young
20. Whoever is happy will make others happy too.  – Anne Frank
21. I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.  – Muriel Strode
22. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.  – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Famous Quotes About Life

1. You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.  – Maya Angelou
2. The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.  – Eminem
3. The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.  – Nelson Mandela
4. Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.  – Sholom Aleichem
5. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.  – Erma Bombeck
6. In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.  – Abraham Lincoln
7. It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.  – Philip Green
8. A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.  – George Bernard Shaw
9. Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.  – Babe Ruth
10. Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.  – Jose Ortega y Gasset
11. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.  – Helen Keller
12. Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.  – Lao Tzu
13. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.  – Thomas A. Edison
14. Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.  – Henri Frederic Amiel
15. You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.  – Dr. Seuss

Inspirational Quotes About Life

1. Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.  – Marilyn Monroe
2. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.  – Helen Keller
3. Life is a long lesson in humility.  – James M. Barrie
4. I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.  – Jimmy Dean
5. We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.  – Joseph Campbell
6. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.  – Robert Frost
7. Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.  – Nathaniel Hawthorne
8. Love the life you live. Live the life you love.  – Bob Marley
9. I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.  – Neil Armstrong
10. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.  – Helen Keller
11. Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.  – Buddha
12. You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.  – Dr. Seuss
13. Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.  – Marcus Aurelius
14. Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.  – Charles Dickens
15. Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.  – Vincent McNabb
16. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.  – Steve Jobs
17. Life is trying things to see if they work.  – Ray Bradbury
18. Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.  – Jim Rohn
19. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.  – Thomas A. Edison

Road to Success Quotes

1. Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.  – Winston S. Churchill
2. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.  – Edward Everett Hale
3. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.  – Henry David Thoreau
4. Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.  – John Wooden
5. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.  – Walt Disney
6. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.  – Winston Churchill
7. If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.  – Steve Jobs
8. Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.  – Marilyn Monroe
9. Success isn’t measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.  – Mike Ditka
10. The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.  – John D. Rockefeller Jr.
11. Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.  – Amos Bronson Alcott
12. The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’  – Maria Montessori
13. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.  – Thomas Jefferson
14. Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.  – Arnold H. Glasow
15. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.  – Barack Obama
16. Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.  – William Feather

Most Famous Quotes

1. Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.  – Henry Ford
2. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.  – Wayne Gretzky
3. It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.  – Mark Twain
4. The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.  – Elvis Presley
5. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.  – Henry Ford
6. The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.  – Vince Lombardi
7. I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.  – Elvis Presley
8. I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.  – Rosa Parks
9. To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.  – Theodore Roosevelt
10. 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.  – Franklin D. Roosevelt
11. Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.  – Stephen King
12. I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.  – Mother Teresa
13. We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.  – Albert Einstein
14. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.  – John F. Kennedy
15. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!’  – Audrey Hepburn
16. It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.  – George Eliot
17. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.  – Leonardo da Vinci
18. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.  – Ayn Rand
19. I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.  – Michael Jordan
20. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.  – Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.  – Elbert Hubbard
22. There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.  – Francis Bacon
23. In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.  – Anne Frank
24. I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.  – Albert Einstein
25. The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.  – Bruce Lee
26. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.  – Franklin Roosevelt
27. Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk and to act. – André Malraux
28. Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.  – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
29. Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.  – Ashton Kutcher
30. Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.  – Jimmy Carter
31. Get busy living, or get busy dying.  – Stephen King
32. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.  – David Brinkley
33. That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.  – Neil Armstrong
34. Better to build a bridge than a wall.  – Elton John
35. The only failure is not to try.  – George Clooney