Famous Quotes

Well-behaved women seldom make history.

~ Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

~ Herbert Bayard Swope

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

~ Dalai Lama Xiv

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Peace begins with a smile..

~ Mother Teresa

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

~ John Green

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone....We leave you a tradition with a future.The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete.People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed.Never throw out anybody.Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.Your “good old days” are still ahead of you, may you have many of them.

~ Sam Levenson

First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.

~ Nicholas Klein

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

~ Thomas Szasz

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

~ C.s. Lewis

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

~ Robert Fulghum

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

~ A.a. Milne

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

~ L.m. Montgomery

You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.

~ C. Joybell C.

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.

~ Emily Dickinson

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

~ George Orwell

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.

~ Alexandre Dumas

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

~ John Green

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

~ Haruki Murakami

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..

~ John Milton

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

~ Paulo Coelho

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

~ Lloyd Alexander

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.(Popular misquote of You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.)

~ Maya Angelou

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

~ Haruki Murakami

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

~ Isaac Asimov

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

~ William Shakespeare

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

~ George Orwell

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

None but ourselves can free our minds.

~ Bob Marley

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

~ Mark Twain

When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.

~ Taylor Swift