Collection Of Quotes

Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. (Plato)

Courage is knowing what not to fear. (Plato)

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty. (Plato)

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. (Plato)

I think therefore I am. (Rene Descartes)

Anybody can become angry - this is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.(Aristotle)

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy. (Aristotle)

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. (Aristotle)

No great genius ever existed without a touch of madness. (Aristotle)

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. (Aristotle)

An honest man is always a child. (Socrates)

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. (Socrates)

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. (Socrates)

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who said has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. (Buddha)

Let him that would move the world first move himself. (Socrates)

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. (Confucius)

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. (Confucius)

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. (Confucius)

If we don't know life, how can we know death? (Confucius)

It doesn't matter how slowly you go, so long as you don't stop. (Confucius)

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. (Confucius)

Life is simple, but we insist on making it complicated. (Confucius)

Silence is a true friend who never betrays. (Confucius)

To go beyond is just as wrong as to fall short. (Confucius)

A person who never made a mistake, never tried anything new. (Einstein)

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. (Einstein)

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. (Einstein)

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. (Einstein)

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed (Einstein)

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. (Einstein)

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. (Einstein)

Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. (Einstein)

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. (Einstein)

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. (Einstein)

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. (Einstein)

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. (Churchill)

I am prepared to meet my Maker. If my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. (Churchill)

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find we have lost the future. (Churchill)

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. (Churchill)

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. (Churchill)

We are masters of unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out. (Churchill)

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. (Churchill)

Who the hell do you think I am? (Gurren Lagann)

Don't believe in the you who believes is me. Don't believe in the me who believes in you. Believe in the you who believes in himself. (Gurren Lagann)

Go beyond the impossible and kick reason to the curb! (Gurren Lagann)

If there is a wall in the way, just smash it. If there is no path, make one with this hand! (Gurren Lagann)

The world won't change with pretty words alone. (Code Geass)

If the King doesn't lead, how can he expect his subordinates to follow. (Code Geass)

A person's a person no matter how small. (Dr Seuss)

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. (Dr Seuss)

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented. (The Truman Show)

We have not passed the subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice - that is, until we stop saying 'it got lost' and say 'I lost it'. (Sidney J. Harris)

I didn't say it was the smart thing, but it is the right thing. (Atlantis: The Lost Empire)

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. (Edgar Allan Poe)

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. (Edgar Allan Poe)

If you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. (Nietzsche)

In heaven all the interesting people are missing. (Nietzsche)

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time. (Nietzsche)

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. (Nietzsche)

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes. (Nietzsche)

It is dreadful to die of thirst in the sea. Do you have to salt your truth so much that it can no longer even quench thirst.(Nietzsche)

Burying memories is man's way of surviving. But there are somethings a man should never forget. (Neon Genesis:Evangelion)

Humans are hilarious. (Death Note)

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. (Gandhi)

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. (Gandhi)

You must be the change you want to see in the world. (Gandhi)

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. (Gandhi)

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate can not drive out hate; only love can do that. (Martin Luther King, Jr)

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character. (Martin Luther King, Jr)

I learned that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. (Nelson Mandela)

In the beginning the universe was created. This has made alot of people very angry and has widely been regarded as a bad move. (Douglas Adams)

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the road has gone,
And I must follow, If I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And wither then? I cannot say. (Tolkien)

It's a dangerous business going out your front door. (Tolkien)

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. (Tolkien)

We are horribly afraid - but we are coming with you; or following you like hounds. (Tolkien)

For all those born with nothing, there are those born with everything. Perhaps those who never notice the difference are the ones we should envy. (Fire Emblem 9)

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. (Mark Twain)

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. (Mark Twain)

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. (Mark Twain)

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. (Mark Twain)

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. (Mark Twain)

Don't go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. (Ralph Emerson)

It's a hard and humbling gesture, to take blame and admit fault. (Craig Silvey).

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. (Carl Jung)

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. (Oscar Wilde)

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not the sitter. (Oscar Wilde)

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. (Oscar Wilde)

I am not young enough to know everything. (Oscar Wilde)

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. (Bertrand Russell)

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. (Bertrand Russell)

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. (George Bernard Shaw)

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less travelled by
And that has made all the difference. (Robert Frost)

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? (Abraham Lincoln)

Action is eloquence. (William Shakespeare)

It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after. (William Shakespeare)

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none. (William Shakespeare)

All the world's a stage,
And all men and women merely players.
They have their exits and entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts. (William Shakespeare)

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. (William Shakespeare)

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal. (John Steinbeck)

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of another. (Charles Dickens)

We should never be ashamed of our tears. (Charles Dickens)

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. (Wilhelm Stekel)

It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes. ( J. D. Salinger)

It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless. (Tim Winton)

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. (Cormac McCarthy)

When you die it's the same as if everybody else died too. (Cormac McCarthy)

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it. (Harper Lee)

Courage is when you go into a fight knowing you're gonna get licked but you go in anyway and don't give up till it's over. (Harper Lee)

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. (Paulo Coelho)

Life attracts life. (Paulo Coelho)

It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. (Paulo Coelho)

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life. (Paulo Coelho)

When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision. (Paulo Coelho)

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.(Paulo Coelho)

When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.(Paulo Coelho)

I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now. (Paulo Coelho)

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not. (Kurt Cobain)

Even in a world full of people, I can't help but feel alone. (Me)

No means no. No does not mean ask again. (Me)

You don't need capital to capitalize. (Me)

Just because it makes sense doesn't mean I have to agree with it. (Me)