The Top
100 QUOTES
of All Time
Engage the mind and soul with classic quotations featuring authors from the ages, with wit, wisdom, and words that inspire.
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I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
John Keats
99
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway
98
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
97
There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus
96
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi
95
Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
94
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Niccolo Machiavelli
93
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
Amelia Earhart
92
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
Henry James
91
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
90
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Jane Austen
89
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
88
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Francis of Assisi
Picture Quote - The only journey is the one within. Rainer Maria Rilke
87
The only journey is the one within.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Picture Quote - Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. Will Rogers
86
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
Will Rogers
Picture Quote - Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. William Blake
85
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
William Blake
Picture Quote - Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. Khalil Gibran
84
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Khalil Gibran
Picture Quote - No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop
83
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
Picture Quote - Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. Karl A. Menninger
82
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Karl A. Menninger
Picture Quote - Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. Satchel Paige
81
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
Satchel Paige
Picture Quote - It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. George Washington
80
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
George Washington
79
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Napoleon Hill
78
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.
Thomas Carlyle
77
Independence is happiness.
Susan B. Anthony
76
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Sun Tzu
75
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman
74
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Sigmund Freud
73
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
George Orwell
72
Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
John Galsworthy
71
You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
Albert Einstein
70
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley
69
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
68
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Lao Tzu
Picture Quote - The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
67
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Picture Quote - A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. Jesus Christ
66
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
Jesus Christ
Picture Quote - There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton
65
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
Picture Quote - Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett
64
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett
Picture Quote - God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. Voltaire
63
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
Voltaire
Picture Quote - Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. Henry Ford
62
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Henry Ford
Picture Quote - Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone de Beauvoir
61
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Simone de Beauvoir
Picture Quote - Not all those who wander are lost. J. R. R. Tolkien
60
Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. Tolkien
59
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
Anne Frank
58
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
57
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin
56
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Thomas Aquinas
55
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell
54
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius
53
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
George Sand
52
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Milton Berle
51
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain
50
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
49
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
Margaret Mead
48
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato
47
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams
Picture Quote - When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves. Viktor E. Frankl
46
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor E. Frankl
Picture Quote - Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. Robert H. Schuller
45
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert H. Schuller
Picture Quote - What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. Plutarch
44
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Plutarch
Picture Quote - Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. Mother Teresa
43
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Mother Teresa
Picture Quote - We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. Friedrich Nietzsche
42
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Picture Quote - All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. Walt Disney
41
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
Picture Quote - We know what we are, but know not what we may be. William Shakespeare
40
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare
Picture Quote - It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. Henry David Thoreau
39
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
38
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia
37
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
36
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Euripides
35
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
Desmond Tutu
34
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard
33
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
32
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
31
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius
30
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
Picture Quote - For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. Judy Garland
29
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland
Picture Quote - If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. A. A. Milne
28
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne
Picture Quote - As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. John F. Kennedy
27
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John F. Kennedy
Picture Quote - Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' Martin Luther King, Jr.
26
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Picture Quote - Believe you can and you're halfway there. Theodore Roosevelt
25
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt
Picture Quote - Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. Democritus
24
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus
Picture Quote - The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. William Arthur Ward
23
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward
Picture Quote - The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt
22
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
21
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
Dr. Seuss
20
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
19
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
18
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
17
Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
Loretta Young
16
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus
15
Do all things with love.
Og Mandino
14
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
13
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
12
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
11
Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi
10
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
9
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
8
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
7
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
6
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
Audrey Hepburn
5
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell
4
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
Maya Angelou
3
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Aristotle
2
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde
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
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