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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Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

David Byrne

We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.

Billy Graham

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

Maya Angelou

For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.

Paul Auster

It’s amazing how people will give when you don’t ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

Joel Osteen

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

Christopher Hitchens

In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.

Noam Chomsky

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

Lao Tzu

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Thomas Jefferson

When I told my doctor I couldn’t afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

Henny Youngman

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

Joyce Meyer

It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven’t been in a high school for about a year. So um, it’s kinda interesting coming back, and y’know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way.

Taylor Swift

Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, ‚Do this, do that,‘ but it’s my demon who provokes me.

Ray Bradbury

I just love Bowie. I think he’s the ultimate inventor.

The Weeknd

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

Dolly Parton

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

Bill Gates

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Henry David Thoreau

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

LeBron James

I don’t want to make niche-oriented music.

Lady Gaga

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

Theodore Roosevelt

I’m about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages at my command, different styles, different ways of talking, which do involve different parameter settings.

Noam Chomsky

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

George Eliot

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Benjamin Disraeli

Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

George W. Bush

I don’t use Twitter for bad.

Kevin Hart

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

Maya Angelou

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

Robert Kiyosaki

Sin is geographical.

Bertrand Russell

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

H. L. Mencken

You can’t trample infidels when you’re a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.

Terry Pratchett

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

William Shakespeare

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

Nipsey Hussle

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

Taylor Swift

What can I say? I’m a talker.

Conor McGregor

Don’t be misled by those who claim God doesn’t exist, because He does.

Billy Graham

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

Matthew McConaughey

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

Joyce Meyer

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

Joe Biden

There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.

Bill Gates

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

Joel Osteen

When I look at public opinion, I’m not far out of the mainstream. I’m in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I’ve ever said.

Noam Chomsky

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

Hunter S. Thompson

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

Dolly Parton

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

Narendra Modi

In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

Thomas Sowell

There’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking.

David Byrne

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

Henry David Thoreau

I vote and I do jury duty.

Christopher Hitchens

It’s in my blood to be around people while I was training.

Muhammad Ali

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Thomas Jefferson

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I want my fans to love themselves. It’s almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

Lady Gaga

I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We’ve kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which people don’t need. I’m anti-consumerism; I own four pairs of black Levis and that’s it.

Paul Auster

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

Maya Angelou

I get really restless when I haven’t worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

Taylor Swift

If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

Noam Chomsky