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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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Plato

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

Franz Kafka

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

Mark Twain

I wish you didn’t have to design so often. Try to do quality and cut down on quantity. I think fashion is very, very important.

Vivienne Westwood

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

Tennessee Williams

Life is wasted on the living.

Douglas Adams

There is one way to have a short but exciting conversation with me, and that is to move too slow.

Jim Mattis

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

Paulo Coelho

I don’t think I get that upset over things.

Abby Lee Miller

None of my kids want to be actors. They are actually very interested in being musicians. I think they like the process of film from the outside. Mad is interested in editing. Pax loves music and deejaying.

Angelina Jolie

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Alexander Pope

If you don’t like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors‘ and mutual fund managers‘ retirement.

Robert Kiyosaki

I’m very excited about having the Internet in my den.

Steve Jobs

In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God’s nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, ‚Do as You promised.‘

Charles Spurgeon

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Leonardo da Vinci

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

Voltaire

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

Clint Eastwood

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

John C. Maxwell

I do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. It’s my way of letting off steam. I do it after every century; I do not do it always. I keep telling myself: ‚Improve, improve from the previous match, the previous shot. You can do it.‘

Virat Kohli

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

Tom Brady

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

Mahatma Gandhi

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Brian Tracy

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

William James

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

John Steinbeck

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

Kurt Vonnegut

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

Heraclitus

100 percent a huge fan of Beyonce. If I see her, I will faint. I’ve met her before. I just get really nervous and quiet – I just shut up and bow down.

Karl Lagerfeld

I’m bloody awful at multi-tasking.

Brian Eno

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Helen Keller

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

Anne Frank

History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

C. S. Lewis

On the ‚Star,‘ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

Ernest Hemingway

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

Woody Allen

My first popular book, ‚A Brief History of Time,‘ aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

Stephen Hawking

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

Carl Jung

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

Jocko Willink

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Harry S. Truman

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Margaret Thatcher

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

It is true that SpaceX is partially a government contractor, but it would be unfair to say that SpaceX is entirely a government contractor.

Elon Musk

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Stephen King

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

Samuel Johnson

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

Charles Bukowski

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation… But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

Billy Graham

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Bruce Lee

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

George Washington

When I feel I’m doing too much, I do less if I can.

Angelina Jolie

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Jackie Robinson

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

The Weeknd

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Alexander Pope

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

Lyndon B. Johnson

It’s tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I’m wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.

Dave Grohl

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

Denzel Washington

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Thomas Carlyle

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Oscar Wilde

I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I’m not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy.

Clint Eastwood

Thrift is of great revenue.

Marcus Tullius Cicero