154 Famous Quotes

1. "We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."
   Maya Angelou





2. "Never rest on your laurels. Nothing wilts faster than a laurel sat upon."
   Mary Kay




3. "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




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




5. "You're not defined by your past; you're prepared by it. You're stronger, more experienced, and you have greater confidence."
   Joel Osteen




6. "Bad things are not the worst thing that can happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us."
   Richard Bach




7. "Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes."
   Francis Bacon




8. "As the world famous financial advisor, Dave Ramsey, says 'live to like no one else, so later you CAN live like no one else!'"
   Ricky Gomez, Frugal Living





9. "When you are through changing, you are through."
   Bruce Barton




10. "Ability is of little account without opportunity."
    Lucille Ball




11. "Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius."
    Josh Billings




12. "Life has no limitations, except the ones you make."
    Les Brown




13. "Everyone in the world, it seems, is just a little bit famous. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google +, and even the email we write expose parts of ourselves that a generation ago would have been private."
    Devin D. Thorpe, 925 Ideas to Help You Save Money





14. "Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life."
    Buddha




15. "Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully."
    Albert Camus




16. "As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."
    Andrew Carnegie





17. "You'll never achieve real success unless you like what you're doing."
    Dale Carnegie




18. "We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams."
    Jimmy Carter




19. "Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult."
    Winston Churchill




20. "I enjoy every day, because I choose to."
    Tony Clark




21. "As you know, life is an echo; we get what we give."
    David DeNotaris




22. "Steve Jobs is famous for being impatient and tough with those that he worked with."
    Mark Patterson




23. "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else."
    Charles Dickens





24. "It's fun to do the impossible."
    Walt Disney




25. "You put your intention and your attention on what it is that you want to shift and change."
    Wayne Dyer




26. "The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil."
    Thomas Edison




27. "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




28. "Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."
    Albert Einstein




29. "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
    Dwight Eisenhower





30. "Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms."
    George Eliot




31. "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




32. "Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."
    Ralph Waldo Emerson




33. "Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain."
    Henry Ford




34. "In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit."
    Anne Frank




35. "Well done, is better than well said."
    Benjamin Franklin




36. "A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world."
    Kahlil Gibran




37. "You'll be richer in the end than a prince, if you're a friend."
    Edgar A. Guest




38. "God put you on this earth because He loves you and He has a plan for you."
    Nick Vujicic




39. "Now I look beyond what I can't do and focus on what I CAN. "
    Robert M. Hensel




40. He (President Obama)is living proof that the impossible can be achieved as long as you commit to the long run. He famously said: "If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress."
    Karen Barrett, Wisdom from Barack Obama




41. "The ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable skill you can learn."
    Napoleon Hill




42. "I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate."
    Elbert Hubbard





43. "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
    Thomas Jefferson




44. "Find people who will make you better."
    Michelle Obama




45. "As my knowledge of things grew I felt more and more the delight of the world I was in."
    Helen Keller




46. "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
    Martin Luther King Jr





47. "No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm."
    Charles Kettering




48. "Take calculated risks. Act boldly and thoughtfully. Be an agile company."
    Ray Kroc




49. Socrates, Plato, and other famous philosophers tried to plunge their minds into infinity, asking, "What is out there? Who is the original Thinker? Who is the unmoved Mover?" But they had no answers. They only knew something had to be out there.
    Dave Roberson, The Walk of the Spirit




50. "Life is what happens while you are making other plans."
    John Lennon





51. "I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. "
    Abraham Lincoln




52. "Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority."
    Vince Lombardi




53. "It always seems impossible until its done."
    Nelson Mandela




54. "Experience has been a stern but excellent teacher."
    Og Mandino




55. "Only a mediocre person is always at his best."
    W. Somerset Maugham




56. "I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning."
    John McLeod




57. Did you know that some of the most famous inventions would never have been made if the inventors had stopped at their first failure? For instance, Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb had 1,000 failed attempts at creating one light bulb that worked properly.
    Vee Freir, Learn To Stress Less





58. "All kids develop at different rates and at different stages."
    Jacquie McTaggart




59. "Peace begins with a smile."
    Mother Teresa




60. Martin Luther King Jr. purposefully directed his life to eliminate racial discrimination and bring people to gods embrace.
    Paulo Braga, A Happy Life




61. "Success is a matter of sticking to a set of common sense principles anyone can master."
    Earl Nightingale




62. "Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do."
    Wilferd Peterson




63. "Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential."
    Anthony Robbins




64. "Enjoy all you have while pursuing all you want."
    Jim Rohn




65. You don't have to be the biggest, the richest, the most famous, the coolest, the fastest, the most intelligent to stand out - you've just got to be different
    Jeff Paul Smith, Be Nice and Grow Famous




66. "To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift."
    Franklin Roosevelt





67. "We tend to get what we expect."
    Norman Vincent Peale




68. "Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort."
    John Ruskin




69. "Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart."
    Seneca




70. "Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby."
    George Bernard Shaw




71. "You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves."
    Yanni




72. "Every man is potentially great, the difference lies in exploiting ones inner potential."
    M. K. Soni




73. Life is not a football game to be watched."
    W. Clement Stone




74. Almost every famous contributor to the betterment of civilization was ridiculed and sometimes even jailed. Think about Galileo. And look what happened to Jesus.
    John Barrett, SoS-Life Enhancement




75. "The key to success is to develop a winning edge."
    Brian Tracy




76. "Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else."
    Mark Twain




77. "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."
    Oprah Winfrey




78. 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




79. You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.
    Elvis Presley




80. 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




81. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter.
    Elllen DeGeneres




82. 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