87 Famous Quotes by Famous People

Quotes by Famous People

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


1. 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






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




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






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




5. "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)




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






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




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






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




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




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






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




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




14. What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count.
    Albert Einstein






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




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




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






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




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




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


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Famous Inspirational Quotes

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




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




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




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






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




25. "To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift."
    Famous words of Franklin Roosevelt




26. 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






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




28. 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




29. 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






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




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




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




33. "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!




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




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




36. "Enjoy all you have while pursuing all you want."
    Jim Rohn (famous words we all need to heed)






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




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




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






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




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




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




43. "It always seems impossible until it's done."
    Nelson Mandela






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




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




46. "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!


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






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




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






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




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




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






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




54. "Find people who will make you better."
    Michelle Obama (and they don't have to be famous people they can be everyday people!)




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






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




57. "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




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






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




60. 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!


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






62. "You'll never achieve real success unless you like what you're doing."
    Dale Carnegie (famous words that still hold true today)




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




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




65. Unless you're continually improving your skills, you're quickly becoming irrelevant.
    Stephen Covey






66. The key to success is failure.
    Michael Jordan




67. Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
    Bill Gates




68. Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
    Wayne Gretzky




69. 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






70. Your attitude is either the lock on or key to your door of success.
    Denis Waitley




71. The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
    Bruce Lee




72. 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 Funny Quotes

Funny but famous words that will make you smile!


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






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




75. Use what talent you possess - the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
    Henry vanDyke




76. To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
    Edgar Allan Poe






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




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




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


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Famous Quotes About Love

Famous words to remind you love changes the world


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






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




82. "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




83. Hate the sin, love the sinner.
    Gandhi




84. 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






85. If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others.
    Dalai Lama




86. 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




87. We should love unquenchably, dream unfalteringly, and work unceasingly.
    Max Lucado


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