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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A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.

Clint Eastwood

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

Mahatma Gandhi

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I’d put a couple of baseballs in the pocket and wrap it up with a rubber band. Today you don’t have to do that, because catchers‘ mitts are more like first baseman’s gloves.

Bob Uecker

Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.

Vivienne Westwood

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

Voltaire

I’m interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you’re like, ‚Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?‘

Elon Musk

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

William James

Nature abhors annihilation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.

Stephen Hawking

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Mark Twain

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Henry Ford

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

Franz Kafka

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Oscar Wilde

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Albert Schweitzer

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

Joan of Arc

I want to be an artist, not… a celluloid aphrodisiac.

Marilyn Monroe

I had to drive with a roof in LMP2, and I managed to get used to that quite quickly – although it’s still not a Halo, it’s still different to what I’m used to.

Lando Norris

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Warren Buffett

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Plato

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

Aldous Huxley

I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

Angelina Jolie

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Paulo Coelho

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Epictetus

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Carl Jung

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Jean-Paul Sartre

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

Brene Brown

While victimhood in America is exalted, I don’t think our veterans should join those ranks.

Jim Mattis

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Harper Lee

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Katharine Hepburn

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Winston Churchill

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

Kobe Bryant

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

John Wayne

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Jim Rohn

I’m not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I’ve always liked the Buddhist religion. When I’ve been to Japan, I’ve been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding.

Clint Eastwood

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

George Washington

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Alexander Pope

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

Martin Luther

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ‚we.‘

Mark Twain

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

Marilyn Monroe

The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

Arthur C. Clarke

If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?

Steven Wright

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

Christopher Columbus

The great moments of rock ‚n‘ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

Bono

I’ve always been a follower of silent movies. I see film as a visual medium with a musical accompaniment, and dialogue is a raft that goes on with it.

George Lucas

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

Thich Nhat Hanh

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God’s grace.

Charles Spurgeon

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

Voltaire

The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel – one that reads like a mystery to most people. They’re not going to learn slash q-z any more than they’re going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

Steve Jobs

I don’t think President Trump is a racist.

John Kennedy

No violent extreme endures.

Thomas Carlyle

One often makes music to supplement one’s world.

Brian Eno

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.

Elon Musk

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Samuel Johnson

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Booker T. Washington

I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.

Tom Brady