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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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Thomas Carlyle

My readers – and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

Paulo Coelho

I don’t mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven’t really thought about it since then. I don’t go to a tanning bed, and I get bored when I lay out. I put sunscreen on when I’m in the sun, and sometimes I get tan, but I don’t really think about it very much.

Taylor Swift

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Socrates

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Epictetus

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

Blaise Pascal

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

Neil Armstrong

Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.

Stephen Hawking

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

Alexander Pope

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

William James

Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I’d be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me.

Jim Carrey

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Voltaire

You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.

Elon Musk

If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

Angelina Jolie

My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.

Bruno Mars

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Golda Meir

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Mark Twain

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Plato

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Alexander Hamilton

I urge everyone to be trendsetters for Azza Suleiman. Let’s make it one fashion which everyone will want to follow.

Vivienne Westwood

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Albert Schweitzer

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Brian Tracy

The more you know the less you need to say.

Jim Rohn

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

Marilyn Monroe

If you’re in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.

Joe Biden

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When I did ‚Bird,‘ it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn’t in it and second because most of the films I’d been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.

Clint Eastwood

It’s a funny old world.

Margaret Thatcher

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Franz Kafka

A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could have existed but didn’t. Like East African free jazz, which as far as I know does not exist.

Brian Eno

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact – men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

Billy Graham

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Ernest Hemingway

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn’t been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

Steve Jobs

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Niccolo Machiavelli

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

Katharine Hepburn

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Epictetus

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

J. K. Rowling

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Hermann Hesse

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Ronald Reagan

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

Aldous Huxley

Some of the stories I admire seem to zero in on one particular time and place. There isn’t a rule about this. But there’s a tidy sense about many stories I read. In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.

Alice Munro

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Warren Buffett

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

Charles Spurgeon

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Henry Ford

Life is warfare.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

Nelson Mandela

To insult someone we call him ‚bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, ‚human‘ might be the greater insult.

Isaac Asimov

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Alexander Pope

I’m personally more struck by visual things more than musical.

Lana Del Rey

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Mark Twain

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

Joyce Meyer

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

Mr. T

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

Oscar Wilde

I am a chef who happens to appear on the telly, that’s it.

Gordon Ramsay

Notifying the enemy in advance of our withdrawal dates or reassuring the enemy that we will not use certain capabilities like our ground forces should be avoided.

Jim Mattis

I defy gravity.

Marilyn Monroe

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

Angelina Jolie

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

Marcus Tullius Cicero