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