Famous Quotes

You’ll surely find many of them to be thought-provoking and entertaining. This selection is, of course, based solely on my personal taste (and even that varies largely from day to day according to my mood). You are welcome to browse the entire collection and look for your own favorite ones or contribute new quotes from your own personal collection.

famous Quotes

1. The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.
—Unknown Author

2. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

3. You can do anything, but not everything.
—David Allen

4. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
—Ambrose Redmoon

5. You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
—Wayne Gretzky

6. When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
—Lin-Chi

7. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
—Gandhi

8. The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
—A. A. Milne

9. To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
—Abraham Maslow

10. We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
—Aristotle

11. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
—Baltasar Gracian

12. Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
—Basho

13. Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
—Lao-Tze

14. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

15. What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
—John Ruskin

16. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.
—Marcel Proust

17. Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching
—Unknown Author

18. Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.
—Virgil Garnett Thomson

19. Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
—Will Rogers

20. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
—Zig Ziglar