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




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




5. "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





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




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




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




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




10. "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





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




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




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





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




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




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




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




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




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




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





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




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




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




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




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





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




27. "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




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




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




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




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




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




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




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




35. 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




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




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





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




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




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





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




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




43. 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




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





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




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




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




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




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




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




51. 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





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




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




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





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




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




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




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




59. 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




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




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




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




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




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




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




66. 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




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




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




69. 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