Quotes have a unique way of striking a chord with us. They can inspire, challenge, and comfort you, echoing through time from the minds of some of history’s most influential figures. This article brings together 96 of the most famous quotes of all time, offering a glimpse into the wisdom that has shaped thoughts and actions across generations
- “To be, or not to be, that is the question.” – William Shakespeare
- “I think, therefore I am.” – René Descartes
- “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” – Neil Armstrong
- “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “All men are created equal.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “Give me liberty, or give me death!” – Patrick Henry
- “I have a dream.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” – J.K. Rowling
- “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
- “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain
- “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” – Albert Einstein
- “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
- “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
- “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” – J.K. Rowling
- “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
- “What we think, we become.” – Buddha
- “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
- “An unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates
- “All that glitters is not gold.” – William Shakespeare
- “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.” – John F. Kennedy
- “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein
- “Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.” – John F. Kennedy
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
- “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
- “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
- “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
- “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
- “What does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
- “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha
- “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
- “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
- “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi
- “The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” – Plato
- “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb
- “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
- “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown
- “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” – Mother Teresa
- “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” – Coco Chanel
- “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Where there is love there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
- “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West
- “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein
- “I came, I saw, I conquered.” – Julius Caesar
- “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
- “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” – Plutarch
- “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.” – Malcolm X
- “I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.” – William Ernest Henley
- “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” – Pablo Picasso
- “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
- “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.” – Marcus Aurelius
- “Happiness can exist only in acceptance.” – George Orwell
- “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
- “We do not remember days, we remember moments.” – Cesare Pavese
- “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” – Confucius
- “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
- “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu
- “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
- “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
- “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
- “The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.” – William James
- “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington
- “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” – Jorge Luis Borges
- “It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – J.K. Rowling
- “No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.” – Haruki Murakami
- “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” – Nelson Mandela
- “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston S. Churchill
- “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” – Oscar Wilde
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched—they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
- “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” – André Gide
- “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
- “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.” – Buddha
