Best quotes of all time

The collections of best quotes from greatest people in history

George Orwell Henry Ford Mahatma Gandhi Leo Tolstoy Robert Heinlein

Age

“The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”

- Lucille Ball

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

- George Bernard Shaw

“Age is an issue of mind over matter If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”

- Mark Twain

“No one is so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”

- Henry David Thoreau

“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.”

“Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone

rings and you hope it isn’t for you.”

- Ogden Nash

“You know you are getting old when the candles

cost more than the cake.”

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your

anger and your energy into something positive.”

“Anyone can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at

the right time and for the right purpose and in

the right way – that is not within everyone’s

power and that is not easy.”

Beauty

“Beauty, without expression, tires.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”

- Leo Tolstoy

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”

- Margaret Hungerford

“I’m tired of all the nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep That’s deep

enough What do you want – an adorable pancreas?”

- Jean Kerr

“Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.”

- Confucius

“Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty – they merely

move it from their faces into their hearts.”

Business

“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about

profits They will be embarrassingly large.”

- Henry Ford

“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and

work twelve hours a day.”

“Good products can be sold by honest advertising If you don’t think the product

is good, you have no business to be advertising it.”

Change

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by

merely changing his attitude.”

- Oprah Winfrey

“He who rejects change is the architect of decay The only human institution

which rejects progress is the cemetery.”

- Harold Wilson

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their

minds cannot change anything.”

- George Bernard Shaw

“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little

chance you have in trying to change others.”

-Jacob M Braude

“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.”

- Confucius

“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable,

and remove yourself from the unacceptable.”

in my life

Children

“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up

’cause they’re looking for ideas.”

- Paula Poundstone

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have

never failed to imitate them.”

“There’s nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to

explain them to an inquisitive child.”

- Frank A Clark

“Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the

world is done by children.”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Additions

If you really think your teacher

is tough, wait until you get a boss He does not have tenure

Great Legends With Their ‘Quotes’

Ernest Hamingway Mark Twain Oscar Wildie Willl Rogers Winston Churchil

Courage

“It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.”

- E.E Cummings

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak Courage is also what it takes to sit

down and listen.”

“Faced with what is right, to leave it undone

shows a lack of courage.”

“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse

every time Congress meets.”

- Will Rogers

“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”

- Leonardo da Vinci

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life A man who lives fully is prepared

to die at any time.”

- Mark Twain

“No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatestgood.”

- Plato

“Our death is not an end if we can live on in our

children and the younger generation For they

are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the

- Marry Pettibone Poole

“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely

uneducated.”

- Alec Bourne

“Life is not divided into semesters You don’t get summers off and very few

employers are interested in helping you find yourself.”

- Bill Gates

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”

- Albert Einstein

“Education is like a double-edged sword It may

be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly

“As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not

an empirical claim that people are clones.”

“Nobody can give you freedom Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything

If you’re a man, you take it.”

- Malcolm X

“The sole equality on earth is death.”

- Philip James Bailey

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”

- George Bernard Shaw

“You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise

children ? Those who’ve never had any.”

- Bill Cosby

“Family isn’t about whose blood you have It’s about who you care about.”

- Trey Parker and Matt Stone

“All happy families resemble one another Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own

way.”

- Leo Tolstoy

“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we

live.”

- Pope John Paul II

“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you

may as well make it dance.”

- George Bernard Shaw

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Additions

It's fine to celebrate success but

it is more important to heed the

lessons of failure

Great Legends With Their ‘Quotes’

Socrates George Bernard Shaw Confucius Buddha Elizabeth Browning

Money

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living The world owes you nothing It

was here first.”

- Mark Twain

“I will tell you how to become rich Close the doors Be fearful when others are

greedy Be greedy when others are fearful.”

- Warren Buffet

“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it

back when it begins to rain.”

- Robert Frost

“Money won’t create success The freedom to make it will.”

- Nelson Mandela

“Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on

the ‘gotta have it’ scale.”

“It is the wretchedness of being rich that you

have to live with rich people.”

- Logan Pearsall Smith

“The only way not to think about money is to have

a great deal of it.”

“In the theater, you go from point A to point Z,

building your performance as the evening

progresses You have to relinquish that control

“Music is a moral law It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to

the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.”

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV

will be fought with sticks and stones.”

Great Legends With Their ‘Quotes’

Oprah Winfrey Bruce Lee Albert Einstein Bill Gates Abdul Kalam

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”

“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.”

- Sven Goran Eriksson

“Opportunity is missed by most people, because it is

dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

“The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey

The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front The new ballplayer cares

about the name on the back.”

Fighting for peace is like

“Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.”

- Bertrand Russell

“Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.”

- George Bernard Shaw

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster

than society gathers wisdom.”

- Isaac Asimov

“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover

new ways of thinking about them.”

- Sir William Bragg

“New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for

those who still would adventure.”

- Herbert Hoover

“However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent

possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.”

- Lewis Mumford

“I am among those who think that science has great beauty A scientist in his

laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural

phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.”

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

- Martin Luther King, Jr

“As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.”

- Abdul Kalam

“It means, people who are in high and

responsible positions, if they go against

righteousness, righteousness itself will get

transformed into a destroyer.”