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Famous People Quotes #2

“The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.” – John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

“I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.” – E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)

“Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.” – Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

“Assassins!” – Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra

“I’ll moider da bum.” – Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare

“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.” – Yogi Berra

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

“Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.” – Rene Descartes (1596-1650), “Discours de la Methode”

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

“Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.” – Henry Ford (1863-1947)

“Do, or do not. There is no ‘try’.” – Yoda (‘The Empire Strikes Back’)

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.” – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

“Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.” – George Burns (1896-1996)

“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

“There are no facts, only interpretations.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” – Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

“The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.” – Edsgar Dijkstra (1930-2002)

“C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.” – Bjarne Stroustrup

“A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.” – Paul Erdos (1913-1996)

“Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.” – Paul Erdos (1913-1996)

Famous Quotes

“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, remains and is immortal.” – Albert Pine

“The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers” – Arthur Koestler

“A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion.” – Chinese Proverb

“I don’t pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.” – Johnny Depp

“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.” – Unknown

“A genius is one who can do anything except make a living” – Joey Lauren Adams

“Start from wherever you are and with whatever you’ve go” – Jim Rohn

“It’s a little like religion and a lot like sex – you should never know when you’re going to get some next.” – Jimmy Buffett

“Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.” – Unknown

“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” – Oscar Wilde

“Google before you tweet is the new think before you speak.” – Jennifer Brownhill

“We stand tallest when we stoop to help others.” – Unknown

“I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.” – Bill Cosby

“There is no limit to the good one can do, when he cares not who gets the credit.” – Unknown

“If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at one, I will” – Mother Teresa

“We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life” – William Osler

Quotes to Inspire

Let me show you a huge collection of Quotes to Inspire. Please take time and read all of them, select your favorite, and share with all your friends. Be happy! :)

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. . . . Explore. Dream.” – Mark Twain

“One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.” – Nelson Mandela

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” – Isaac Asimov

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” – Booker T. Washington

“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” – Muhammad Ali

“The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives.” – Erving Goffman

“Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would be.” – Nelson Mandela

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead

“One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay ‘in kind’ somewhere else in life.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman

“Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.” – Doris Mortman

“Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

“Make it your business to know yourself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.” – Miguel De Cervantes

“To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.” – Joseph Chilton Pearce

”Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” –
Carl Bard

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” – Albert Einstein

Quotes to Inspire”Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.” – Albert Schweitzer

”The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

”Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

”Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.” – Henry David Thoreau

”The secret of happiness is not doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.” – Sir James M. Barrie

“In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.” – Eric Hoffer

“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.” – Chinese Proverb

“If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.” – Betty Reese

”The journey of discovery begins not with new vistas but with having new eyes with which to behold them.” – Marcel Proust

”The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.” – Linus Pauling

“Tell me I’ll forget, show me, I may remember, but involve me and I’ll understand. – Chinese Proverb

”Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – St. Francis of Assisi

”The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.” – Benjamin Mays

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.” – Nelson Mandela

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.” – Agnes Repplier

“If you put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.” – Anonymous

“The definition of a bore: a person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.” – Ambrose Bierce

”To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.” – Johann von Goethe

“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.” – Soren Kierkegaard

”Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it “ – Henry David Thoreau

“When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.” – Kahlil Gibran

”Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” – Carl Jung

”Friendship with one’s self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

”Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

”I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson

”First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi

”Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde

”The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” – Albert Einstein

Famous Love Quotes

“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.” – Brandi Snyder

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.” – Tom Robbins

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu

“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” – Barbara De Angelis

“Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.” – Anais Nin

“If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.” – Winnie the Pooh

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

“You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.” – Julia Roberts

“Love is like a Rubix Cube, there are countless numbers of wrong twists and turns, but when you get it right, it looks perfect no matter what way you look at it” – Brian Cramer

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.” – Oscar Wilde

Cute Quotes for Girls

I don’t believe in love because I still don’t have you! – Author Unknown

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. – Ingrid Bergman

When the eyes meet and hold strongly they are bound to meet again. – Author Unknown

You know it’s love when you want to keep holding hands even after you’re sweaty. – Author Unknown

Kiss that’s never tasted is forever and ever wasted. – Billie Holiday

Sometimes the perfect person for you is that whom you least expected to be. – Author Unknown

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. – Swedish Proverb

Two hearts, two minds, in time did find one love, one aim two paths the same. Hold fast…and love will last. – Author Unknown

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Even if courage fails you, tell that special someone that you love them in anyway possible. – Author Unknown

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. – Oscar Wilde

Cute love is an attempt to change a piece of dream into reality. – Author Unknown

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. – Albert Einstein

Women are made to be loved, not understood. – Oscar Wilde

Famous Quotes

“If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.” – Paulo Coelho

“Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.” – Robert Schuller

“Success doesn’t make you and failure doesn’t break you” – Zig Ziglar

“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.” – Albert Einstein

“The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television” – Andrew Ross

“Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.” – Washington Irving

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” – Dale Carnegie

“If you understand life, you must be misinformed.” – Paulo Coelho

“Two great talkers will not travel far together.” – Spanish Proverb

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde

“If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Goodbye without reasons is the most painful one. Love without reasons is the most beautiful one.” – Dhanti Praspani

“Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it’s addressed to someone else.” – Ivern Ball

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We do not remember days, we remember moments” – Cesare Pavese

“Superior men are modest in speech but exceed in actions” – Confucius

Famous People Quotes #4

“He who has a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

“Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.” – Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

“I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.” – Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

“God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.” – Voltaire (1694-1778)

“He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.” – H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)

“I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.” – Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

“I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.” – Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)

“If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.” – J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)

“Facts are the enemy of truth.” – Don Quixote – “Man of La Mancha”

“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.” – George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.” – Anais Nin (1903-1977)

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

“I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.” – Frederick (II) the Great

“Maybe this world is another planet’s Hell.” – Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

“Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.” – George Eliot (1819-1880)

“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”
– Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)

“Black holes are where God divided by zero.” – Steven Wright

“I’ve had a wonderful time, but this wasn’t it.” – Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” – Walt Disney (1901-1966)

“We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.” – Vince Lombardi

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.” – James Branch Cabell

“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.” – John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960)

“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.” – Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

“You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.” – Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)

“An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.” – Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)

“I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.” – Umberto Eco

“Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.” – Jimmy Durante

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” – Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953

“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” – Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

10 Beauty Quotes

Let me share with you 10 Beauty Quotes to make your day better. Please comment and tell me you’re favorite beauty quote from this list (or from your own list). Thanks!

1. “The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.” – Ashley Smith

2. “Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.” – Mark Overby

3. “No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.” – Oscar Wilde

4. “It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.” – Oscar Wilde

5. “It’s beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.” – Ivan Panin

6. “Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

7. “Pretty is something you’re born with. But beautiful, that’s an equal opportunity adjective.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

9. “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart” – Helen Keller

10. “It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before” – Jane Austen

Bonus: “Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart” – Kahlil Gibran

Love Quotes

Anyone here yelled for a great article of love quotes? Here it is, my friends. Some wonderful love quotes special selected for you and your girlfriend (or boyfriend).

Love doesn’t make the world go ’round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile. – Franklin P. Jones

Where there is love there is life. – Mohandas K. Gandhi

Love is the greatest refreshment in life. – Pablo Picasso

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. – Oscar Wilde

If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don’t have it, no matter what else there is, it’s not enough. – Ann Landers

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. – Erich Fromm

Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. – Hoosier Farmer

Love is a language spoken by everyone, but understood only by a heart. – Shirley Rindani

You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. – Dr. Seuss

Love is friendship set on fire. – Jeremy Taylor

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. – Jeanne Moreau

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health has vanished. – Og Mandingo

There is no remedy for love but to love more. – Henry David Thoreau

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. – Albert Einstein

It is love that makes the impossible possible. – Indian Proverb

Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love. – Virgil

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. – David Viscott

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. – Oscar Wilde

Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. – Robert Heinlein

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return. – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it’s what you are expected to give — which is everything – Anonymous

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. – Rainer Maria Rilke

I’ve learned … that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them. – Andy Rooney

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. – Roy Croft

The best thing about me is you. – Shannon Crown

I can’t say anymore than I love you. Anything else would be a waste of breath. – Elvis Costello

I miss you a little, I guess you could say, a little too much, a little too often, and a little more each day. – Anonymous

Love is not blind, it sees but it doesn’t mind. – Rizi Jane Baldon

Love sees roses without thorns. – German Proverb

Love is being stupid together. – Paul Valery

Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart. – Kay Knudsen

We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together. – Brian Andres

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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