Best Quotes Around the World

Discover the magic of words and the wisdom of the world's thinkers on our Best Quotes Around the World website www.quotea.net. We offer a collection of inspirational quotes to encourage, motivate and make you think. From ancient philosophers to modern authors, our collection includes the most beautiful thoughts from all corners of the world. Join us and be inspired by the power of words!

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I’ve suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

Lady Gaga

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

Winston Churchill

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

Wayne Dyer

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

Robert Greene

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

George Carlin

I am desperate for change – now – not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

Michelle Obama

One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you’re talking about.

Madeleine Albright

Imagination decides everything.

Blaise Pascal

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Henry David Thoreau

It’s, like, even in journeys like Facebook, we’ve had some very serious ups and downs.

Mark Zuckerberg

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

John Ruskin

What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending – that’s the whole point! Seriously.

Barack Obama

I suppose Virgin is an unusual brand in that I suspect we’re the only ‚way of life‘ brand in the world. We’re one of maybe the top 30 best known brands in the world, yet if you look at the other 29, they all specialize in one area. Whether it’s Google, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, etc., they all generally specialize in one area.

Richard Branson

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.

Ronald Reagan

But when I hear a great song, I can’t help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

Taylor Swift

I won’t touch on risky, because that’s subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

Frank Ocean

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

Lando Norris

It’s wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

Dan Quayle

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

Sunil Chhetri

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

Dolly Parton

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn’t make it.

Henry Kissinger

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

Robert Kiyosaki

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil… prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.

Terry Pratchett

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

Desmond Tutu

When a politician uses the word ‚folks,‘ we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

Noam Chomsky

I’ve been in a couple of weddings where the coolest people that were the most day before so mellow and then the day of the wedding freaking out.

Matthew McConaughey

See, behind all my tough, rough exterior is basically a marshmallow, maybe a pussycat. But not a wimp!

Mr. T

Until you pray, God cannot work.

Joyce Meyer

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

Bill Gates

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn’t have to go so fast.

Steven Wright

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

Haruki Murakami

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Lou Holtz

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.

Margaret Atwood

I really have no interest in myself.

Paul Auster

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

Joel Osteen

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Robert Frost

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

George Orwell

I am who I am today because of my mother.

Kevin Hart

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

Maya Angelou

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

Russell M. Nelson

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I’m someone else.

David Byrne

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

Kanye West

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

Joe Biden

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

Robert Baden-Powell

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

Kevin Gates

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

H. L. Mencken

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

You can’t just slander someone, defame them, lie about them. You can’t incite people to crime. There’s all sorts of reasonable restrictions on free speech that are already codified in the British common-law system.

Jordan Peterson

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

Joseph Addison

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

Bob Dylan

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

Dave Grohl

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger’s skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

John F. Kennedy

I know Gov. Christie. We’ve met a couple of times.

Dwayne Johnson

Part of my focus on what we need to do around smart gun safety laws is recognize we have to have more enforcement around gun dealers.

Kamala Harris

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

George Bernard Shaw

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

Dalai Lama

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

Barack Obama