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Famous Money Quotes

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“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” – Mark Twain

“I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.” – Warren Buffet

“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.” – Robert Frost

“Money won’t create success. The freedom to make it will.” – Nelson Mandela

“Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.” – Zig Ziglar

“Time is money.” – Benjamin Franklin

“If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.” – Katherine Hepburn

“It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.” – Logan Pearsall Smith

“The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.” – Edith Wharton

“I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself – in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.” – Henry Ford

Famous Happiness Quotes

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“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer somebody else up.” – Mark Twain

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” – Thomas Jefferson

“It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.” – Dalai Lama

“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.” – Robert Frost

“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.” – Storm Jameson

“The U.S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” – Albert Schweitzer

Famous Friendship Quotes

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“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.” – Albert Camus

“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.” – Aristotle

“Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you.” – Elbert Hubbard

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” – Dale Carnegie

“True friends stab you in the front.” – Oscar Wilde

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” – Helen Keller

“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value. Rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.” – C. S. Lewis

“There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.” – William Butler Yeats

“Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.” – George Eliot

Famous Family Quotes

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“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family.” – Lee Iacocca

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” – George Bernard Shaw

“You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who’ve never had any.” – Bill Cosby

“Family isn’t about whose blood you have. It’s about who you care about.” – Trey Parker and Matt Stone

“All happy families resemble one another. Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Leo Tolstoy

“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.” – Jane Howard

“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” – Desmond Tutu

“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.” – Pope John Paul II

“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” – George Bernard Shaw

Famous Equality Quotes

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“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.” – Aristotle

“Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions. It only guarantees equality of opportunity.” – Irving Kristol

“As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.” – Steven Pinker

“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.” – George Orwell

“I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.” – Mohandas Gandhi

“Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.” – Albert Einstein

“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.” – Malcolm X

“The sole equality on earth is death.” – Philip James Bailey

“To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.” – William Faulkner

“Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.”- Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

Famous Education & Wisdom Quotes

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“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle

“Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.” – Pete Seeger

“The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.” – Socrates

“To repeat what others have said requires education. To challenge it requires brains.” – Marry Pettibone Poole

“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.” – Alec Bourne

“Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.” – Bill Gates

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.” – Albert Einstein

“Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.” – Wu Ting-Fang

“Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.” ­- Plato

“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes

Famous Death Quotes

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“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.” – Buddha

“Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.” – Albert Einstein

“The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” – Mark Twain

“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.” – Will Rogers

“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?” – Edgar Allan Poe

“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain

“No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.” – Plato

Famous Courage Quotes

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“It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.” – E.E. Cummings

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill

“Courage is grace under pressure.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” – Mark Twain

“Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” – Ambrose Redmoon

“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” – Bruce Lee

“Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.” – John Wooden

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says ‘I’ll try again tomorrow.’” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.” – Confucius

Famous Business Quotes

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“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” – Henry Ford

“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.” – Robert Frost

“Never burn bridges. Today’s junior jerk, tomorrow’s senior partner.” – Sigourney Weaver

“The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis

“It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with your business.” – William J. H. Boetcker

“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.” – Kahlil Gibran

“A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.” – Henry Kravis

“Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don’t think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.” – David Ogilvy

“Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.” – Benjamin Franklin

Famous Beauty Quotes

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“Beauty, without expression, tires.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” – Leo Tolstoy

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” – Margaret Hungerford

“I’m tired of all the nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want – an adorable pancreas?” – Jean Kerr

“Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.” – Confucius

“Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty – they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.” – Martin Buxbaum

“It is not beauty that endears; it’s love that makes us see beauty.” – Leo Tolstoy

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.” – Dorothy Parker

“You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else.” – Chuck Palahniuk

“Beauty is whatever gives joy.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay