95 Famous Quotes To Inspire and Encourage

95 Famous Quotes

People who become famous are usually extraordinary in some way. They’ve out-worked their competition and poured blood, sweat and tears into getting to the very top (even, as most famous people will tell you, to over work to the point of obsession!). And even though we only see in part who a famous person really is… (we tend to only know the public profile, not the private persona), there are some truly wise words here; borne out of real-world experience and toughness. So be encouraged by these famous words from some of the world’s most famous people! I hope these Quotes from Famous People give you encouragement and help accelerate you on your own journey to the top!

    Quotes by Famous People

    Be encouraged by these famous words from some famous people! Quotes that provide encouragement and some that are thought provoking.

    When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. 
 Paulo Coelho

  1. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
    Paulo Coelho
  2. There are three things you can do with your life: You can waste it, you can spend it, or you can invest it. The best use of your life is to invest it in something that will last longer than your time on Earth.
    Rick Warren
  3. We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.  Maya Angelou

  4. “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
    Famous words of Maya Angelou
  5. You only pass through this life once, you don’t come back for an encore.
    Elvis Presley
  6. Never rest on your laurels. Nothing wilts faster than a laurel sat upon. Mary Kay

  7. “Never rest on your laurels. Nothing wilts faster than a laurel sat upon.”
    Mary Kay
  8. “You could be the world’s best garbage man, the world’s best model; it don’t matter what you do if you’re the best.”
    Muhammad Ali (famous words to encourage you to be the best at whatever you do)
  9. “Peace begins with a smile.”
    A well known quote by Mother Teresa
  10. In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.
 Anne Frank

  11. “In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.”
    Anne Frank
  12. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter.
    Elllen DeGeneres
  13. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  14. “Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
  15. “Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential.”
    Anthony Robbins
  16. “Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.”
    Awesome quote by Henry Ford
  17. Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. George Eliot

  18. “Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.”
    George Eliot
  19. “Happiness doesn’t come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.”
    Wilferd Peterson
  20. What counts can’t always be counted; what can be counted doesn’t always count.
    Albert Einstein Brilliant Words!
  21. You're not defined by your past; you're prepared by it. You're stronger, 
more experienced, and you have greater confidence.  Joel Osteen

  22. “You’re not defined by your past; you’re prepared by it. You’re stronger, more experienced, and you have greater confidence.”
    Joel Osteen
  23. “The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.”
    Thomas Edison
  24. “The ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable skill you can learn.”
    Napoleon Hill
  25. Ability is of little account without opportunity.
 Lucille Ball

  26. “Ability is of little account without opportunity.”
    Lucille Ball
  27. “We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.”
    Jimmy Carter
  28. We begin, then, with the basic premise that the purpose of our life is to seek happiness. It is a vision of happiness as a real objective, one that we can take positive steps toward achieving
    Dalai Lama, The Art of Happiness
  29. “Now I look beyond what I can’t do and focus on what I CAN. “
    Robert M. Hensel
  30. You know I think that when you explore the ordinary, sometimes, you may just discover the extraordinary. Jeff Goldblum
    You know I think that when you explore the ordinary, sometimes, you may just discover the extraordinary.
    Jeff Goldblum
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    Famous Inspirational Quotes

    Be inspired by these famous words that apply to all ages!

    It's fun to do the impossible. Walt Disney

  32. “It’s fun to do the impossible.”
    An excellent quote Walt Disney
  33. “Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.”
    John Ruskin
  34. “You put your intention and your attention on what it is that you want to shift and change.”
    Wayne Dyer
  35. No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else
  Charles Dickens

  36. “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.”
    Well-known words of Charles Dickens
  37. “To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.”
    Famous words of Franklin Roosevelt
  38. Your brain is the most important organ in your body, and what happens in it determines what you think and feel, say and do.
    Rick Hanson, Hardwiring Happiness
  39. We tend to get what we expect.  Norman Vincent Peale

  40. “We tend to get what we expect.”
    Norman Vincent Peale
  41. Having known both the peaks and the valleys of public life, I have learned that you cannot really appreciate the heights unless you have also experienced the depths.
    Richard Nixon
  42. Wilma Rudolph, Helen Keller, Walt Disney, Joan of Arc, Nelson Mandela, and Thomas Edison, to name a few, not only climbed mountains, they exceeded limits and expanded boundaries, setting the tone for those who respect and admire them.
    Eric Thomas, Greatness Is Upon You
  43. No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm. Charles Kettering

  44. “No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.”
    Charles Kettering
  45. “Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”
    Seneca
  46. “Bad things are not the worst thing that can happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us.”
    Richard Bach
  47. “Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.”
    George Bernard Shaw
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    Famous Short Quotes

    While these words are short and said by famous people they contain words of wisdom!

    Just disconnect. Once in a day sometime, sit silently and from all connections disconnect yourself.
  Yoda

  49. “Just disconnect. Once in a day sometime, sit silently and from all connections disconnect yourself.”
    Yoda
  50. “Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.”
    Francis Bacon
  51. The heart is luminous, but it is obscured by veils which are not of its nature.
    Buddha
  52. “Enjoy all you have while pursuing all you want.”
    Jim Rohn (famous words we all need to heed)
  53. When you are through changing, you are through.  Bruce Barton

  54. “When you are through changing, you are through.”
    Bruce Barton
  55. “Experience has been a stern but excellent teacher.”
    Og Mandino
  56. “Well done, is better than well said.”
    A popular quote by Benjamin Franklin
  57. Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.  Buddha

  58. “Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.”
    Buddha
  59. “Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully.”
    Albert Camus
  60. See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
    Seneca
  61. “You’ll be richer in the end than a prince, if you’re a friend.”
    Edgar A. Guest
  62. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
    Nelson Mandela
  63. Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.  Winston Churchill

  64. “Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.”
    Winston Churchill
  65. “A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.”
    Kahlil Gibran
  66. “Only a mediocre person is always at his best.”
    W. Somerset Maugham
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    Famous Quotes about Life

    Famous words to encourage you to live each day!

  68. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”
    Oprah Winfrey
  69. Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
 Les Brown

  70. “Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.”
    Les Brown
  71. “Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.”
    Vince Lombardi
  72. As you know, life is an echo; we get what we give. David DeNotaris

  73. “As you know, life is an echo; we get what we give.”
    David DeNotaris
  74. “Life is what happens while you are making other plans.”
    John Lennon
  75. “I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning.”
    John McLeod
  76. I enjoy every day, because I choose to.
  Tony Clark

  77. “I enjoy every day, because I choose to.”
    Tony Clark
  78. “Find people who will make you better.”
    Michelle Obama (and they don’t have to be famous people they can be everyday people!)
  79. “I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”
    Elbert Hubbard
  80. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. Thomas Jefferson

  81. “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
    Thomas Jefferson
  82. “There are also countless writers, movie directors, and inventors whose ideas that have made them famous got their creative ideas from dreams.”
    Michelle Hunt, Creativity: Innovation
  83. “As my knowledge of things grew I felt more and more the delight of the world I was in.”
    Helen Keller
  84. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
 Martin Luther King Jr

  85. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
    Martin Luther King Jr
  86. Benjamin Franklin was a humanitarian that dedicated his life to making contributions to all humans. He had a clear purpose for himself: improve the human race.
    Paulo Braga, A Happy Life
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    Famous Quotes About Success

    Find the keys to success in these famous lines!

  88. “The key to success is to develop a winning edge.”
    Brian Tracy
  89. You'll never achieve real success unless you like what you're doing. Dale Carnegie

  90. “You’ll never achieve real success unless you like what you’re doing.”
    Dale Carnegie (famous words that still hold true today)
  91. “Success is a matter of sticking to a set of common sense principles anyone can master.”
    Earl Nightingale
  92. Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
 Albert Einstein

  93. Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
    Albert Einstein
  94. Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.
    Stephen Covey
  95. The key to success is failure. 
  Michael Jordan

  96. The key to success is failure.
    Michael Jordan
  97. Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
    Bill Gates
  98. Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
    Wayne Gretzky
  99. If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
    Ray Kroc
  100. Your attitude is either the lock on or key to your door of success. 
  Denis Waitley

  101. Your attitude is either the lock on or key to your door of success.
    Denis Waitley
  102. The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
    Bruce Lee
  103. Others don’t realize that the real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job; that you can best get to the top by getting to the bottom of things – and then climbing those stairs, one at a time.
    Zig Ziglar, See You At The Top
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Famous Quotes
By Author:

~A~

Muhammad Ali

Maya Angelou

~B~

Richard Bach

Francis Bacon

Bruce Barton

Lucille Ball

Josh Billings

Les Brown

Buddha

~C~

Albert Camus

Andrew Carnegie

Dale Carnegie

Jimmy Carter

Winston Churchill

Tony Clark

James Clear

Paulo Coelho

Confucius

Stephen Covey

~D~

Ellen DeGeneres

David DeNotaris

Charles Dickens

Walt Disney

Wayne Dyer

~E~

Thomas Edison

Albert Einstein

Dwight Eisenhower

George Eliot

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~F~

Henry Ford

Anne Frank

Benjamin Franklin

~G~

Gandhi

Bill Gates

Kahlil Gibran

Wayne Gretzky

Edgar A. Guest

~H~

Robert M. Hensel

Napoleon Hill

Elbert Hubbard

~J~

Michael Jackson

Thomas Jefferson

Jesus

Michael Jordon

~K~

Mary Kay

Helen Keller

Martin Luther King Jr

Charles Kettering

Ray Kroc

~L~

Dalai Lama

Bruce Lee

John Lennon

C. S. Lewis

Abraham Lincoln

Vince Lombardi

Max Lucado

~M~

Nelson Mandela

Og Mandino

Bob Marley

W. Somerset Maugham

John Maxwell

John McLeod

Jacquie McTaggart

Margaret Mead

Mother Teresa

John Muir

~N~

Earl Nightingale

Richard Nixon

~O~

Barack Obama

Michelle Obama

George Orwell

Joel Osteen

~P~

Norman Vincent Peale

Wilferd Peterson

Edgar Allan Poe

Elvis Presley

~R~

Anthony Robbins

Jim Rohn

Franklin Roosevelt

Bob Ross Quotes

John Ruskin

~S~

Seneca

George Bernard Shaw

M. K. Soni

Charles Spurgeon

W. Clement Stone

Arnold Schwarzenegger

~T~

Eric Thomas

Brian Tracy

Mark Twain

~U~

Michelle C. Ustaszeski

~V~

Henry VanDyke

Iyanla Vanzant

Nick Vujicic

~W~

Denis Waitley

William Arthur Ward

Rick Warren

Oprah Winfrey

~Y~

Yanni

Yoda

~Z~

Zig Ziglar

    Famous Funny Quotes

    Famous words that will make you smile!

  1. “Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
    Mark Twain
  2. Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
  Josh Billings

  3. “Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.”
    Josh Billings
  4. Use what talent you possess – the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
    Henry vanDyke
  5. To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
    Edgar Allan Poe
  6. I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. Abraham Lincoln

  7. “I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back. “
    Abraham Lincoln
  8. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
    Dwight Eisenhower
  9. As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.  Andrew Carnegie

  10. “As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”
    Andrew Carnegie
  11. “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
    George Burns
  12. “Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
  13. “Mom needs to remember that honey catches more flies than vinegar does.”
    Jacquie McTaggart
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    Famous Quotes About Love

    Famous words to remind you love changes the world

    Hate the sin, love the sinner.  Gandhi

  15. Hate the sin, love the sinner.
    Gandhi
  16. “You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.”
    Yanni
  17. God put you on this earth because He loves you and He has a plan for you.
  Nick Vujicic

  18. “God put you on this earth because He loves you and He has a plan for you.”
    Nick Vujicic
  19. “If faith asks, it will receive; if hope seeks, it will find; and if love knocks, the door will be opened to it.”
    Charles Spurgeon
  20. You have heard the law that says, �Love your neighbor� and hate your enemy. But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you!
    Jesus, Matthew 5:43-44
  21. If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. 
 Dalai Lama

  22. If you don’t love yourself, you cannot love others.
    Dalai Lama
  23. Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
    C. S. Lewis
  24. We should love unquenchably, dream unfalteringly, and work unceasingly.
    Max Lucado
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We hope you have been inspired and encouraged by these famous quotes from these recognized and outstanding, prominent people; from authors, former presidents, movie stars, and leaders. We can all learn from their experience and knowledge. Their quotes give us insight into life, love, and success along with some humor!Learn from those who have been there, be encouraged and motivated by their words.

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