Best Quotes Around the World

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn’t have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.

My sisters are stronger and my brother’s bigger than me.

Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others‘ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

I’m not the most patient of people.

God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people. The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.

One thing about ‚Star Wars‘ that I’m really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That’s why I like the ‚Star Wars‘ toys.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.

I spent three of the best years of my life in 10th grade.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.

I can have people around a lot more because I’m not always chasing them away so I can work on my novel. My non-novel, I mean.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you’re under reproach, your behavior shows it.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.