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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While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

Huey Newton

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

William James

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

Abby Lee Miller

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

Alexander the Great

I love a natural look in pictures.

Marilyn Monroe

Well, they’re Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn’t dream of interrupting you at golf.

Harper Lee

In the ’70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

David Hare

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

Charlie Chaplin

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Charles Spurgeon

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.

Mark Zuckerberg

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Woody Allen

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

Bob Dylan

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.

Bob Uecker

One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone.

Kobe Bryant

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

Warren Buffett

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it’s always expensive.

Elon Musk

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

Albert Schweitzer

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Thomas Carlyle

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

Carl Jung

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hermann Hesse

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Stephen Covey

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

Aldous Huxley

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

Mark Twain

Where love is, there God is also.

Mahatma Gandhi

You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Stephen King

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Jim Rohn

The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph.

Stephen Hawking

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

Epictetus

I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I’ve always thought it isn’t that different from everybody else’s.

Brian Eno

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

Marilyn Monroe

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Golda Meir

There are many people who do not know if the U.S. Army has 60,000 men or 6 million. They do not have a clue about that.

Jim Mattis

People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship, and if that happened, then they wouldn’t be prey to the employers who say, ‚We want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.‘

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Voltaire

I’m not a film buff. I don’t watch a lot of movies.

Denzel Washington

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

Oscar Wilde

What I’m hoping is that every album I’m going to do will give my audience something different, and that they’ll grow as I do.

Bruno Mars

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I’m delighted.

Vivienne Westwood

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Plato

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men’s crapper of the local bar.

Charles Bukowski

I used to write random little stupid things when I was five, but then the first song I really wrote was one called ‚Fingers Crossed,‘ which is on SoundCloud.

Billie Eilish

Married or single, you sisters possess distinctive capabilities and special intuition you have received as gifts from God. We brethren cannot duplicate your unique influence.

Russell M. Nelson

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

Tom Brady

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

King Solomon

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

George Orwell

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

J. K. Rowling

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

Steve Jobs

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

Immanuel Kant

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

Amy Winehouse

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Francis Bacon

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

Christopher Hitchens

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

Margaret Thatcher

No one wants advice – only corroboration.

John Steinbeck

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Kurt Vonnegut

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

Paulo Coelho