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Source of Famous Quotes of the Day
Some unintentional misquotes might happened. None of us were physically present at a time when these famous peoples said it.
So if you have any prove that Aristotle did not say:
“A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.”
Or
“A friend to all is a friend to none”– please let us know and we will fix it.
Quotes on Success
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Ben Stein
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
Moliere
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao Tzu
Behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.
Eric Buttterworth
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Seneca
Both fortune and love befriend the bold.
Ovid
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
Following the herd is a sure way to mediocrity.
Patti Wilson
The most important single ingredient in the formula for success is knowing how to get along with people.
Theodore Roosevelt
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people before any other ability under the sun.
John D. Rockefeller
A good plan vigorously executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
George S. Patton
They can conquer who believe they can.
Virgil
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Theodore Roosevelt
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.
Thomas J. Watson
Quotes on Failure
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
Quotes on Dreams
The mightiest works have been accomplished by men who have somehow kept their ability to dream great dreams.
Walter Russell Bowie
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Leon J. Suenens
Dreams don’t work unless you do.
John C. Maxwell
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Christopher Reeve
If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.
Walt Disney
Quotes on Happiness
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Marquis De Condorcet
Think to Thank. In these three words are the finest capsule course for a happy marriage, formula for enduring friendship, and a pattern for personal happiness.
Thomas S. Monson
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Rita Mae Brown
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.
Thucydides
Life’s truest happiness is found in friendships we make along the way.
Unknown
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
George Santayana
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Unknown
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes on Attitude
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Carol Burnett
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
Aristotle
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
Unknown
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Anais Nin
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Johann von Goethe
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let not a man guards his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end . . . I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Abraham Lincoln
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
Walt Emerson
Wisdom Quotes
You can do anything, but not everything.
David Allen
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de SaintExupéry
The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.
Unknown Author
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
Wayne Gretzky
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Gandhi
When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
LinChi
The thirdrate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The secondrate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The firstrate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
A. A. Milne
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
Abraham Maslow
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
Basho
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.
LaoTze
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.
Marcel Proust
Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching
Unknown Author
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
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar
Funny Quotes
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
Oscar Levant
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
I’ve gone into hundreds of [fortuneteller’s parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
New York City detective
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Norm Crosby
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
Kurt Vonnegut
Just the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Carl Sagan
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Jean Rostand
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Lily Tomlin
I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
Richard Lewis
We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
Robert Wilensky
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Scott Adams
If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
Anon
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it.
Clarence Darrow
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.
Cullen Hightower
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
Cyril Connolly
There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Dick Cavett
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
H. L. Mencken
I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
Victor Hugo
I took a speed reading course and read ‘War and Peace’ in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
Woody Allen
Intelligent Quotes
The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
André Gide
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer.
Aryeh Frimer
We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Bill Vaughan
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal
Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.
Cale Yarborough
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.
Charles F. Kettering
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Cyril Connolly
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
Dame Edna Everage
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Edith Sitwell
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
Ellen Goodman
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Ellen Parr
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
Erica Jong
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
Gordon R. Dickson
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
Lily Tomlin
Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence.
Napoleon (Hanlon’s Razor)
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
Oscar Wilde
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
Thomas Szasz
Love is blind — marriage is the eye-opener.
Pauline Thomason