Best Quotes Around the World

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I’ve got two Rolexes that I’m very proud of – a gold Presidential that was a gift and a white gold one I gifted myself. I’m trying to step my game up and get a few more of those.

J. Cole

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Mother Teresa

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Charles Dickens

At first, I didn’t really use anything in the social network world. I was so anti-social network, which is kind of ironic. I actually first started on a chat room on my fan site.

Rihanna

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Jim Rohn

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Mark Twain

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

Albert Camus

I didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.

Amy Winehouse

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

Hermann Hesse

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

Benjamin Franklin

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

John Kennedy

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

J. K. Rowling

I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.

Adam Sandler

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Albert Einstein

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

George Orwell

I can resist everything except temptation.

Oscar Wilde

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

George S. Patton

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

Paulo Coelho

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Aristotle

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists‘ morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

Margaret Thatcher

You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

Stephen Covey

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

Alice Walker

I restore myself when I’m alone.

Marilyn Monroe

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

Warren Buffett

Teach a parrot the terms ‚supply and demand‘ and you’ve got an economist.

Thomas Carlyle

You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that’s great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.

Taylor Swift

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

George Carlin

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of – I wouldn’t call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

Tom Brady

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Voltaire

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Buddha

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

Aldous Huxley

Lord, help my poor soul.

Edgar Allan Poe

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.

Steve Jobs

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Confucius

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

There are certain characteristics that define a good chimp mother. She is patient, she is protective but she is not over-protective – that is really important. She is tolerant, but she can impose discipline. She is affectionate. She plays. And the most important of all: she is supportive.

Jane Goodall

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

Benjamin Franklin

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

Tennessee Williams

I didn’t do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

Vivienne Westwood

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

Alexander the Great

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Most of the time I don’t have much fun. The rest of the time I don’t have any fun at all.

Woody Allen

I’ve learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you’d talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.

Brene Brown

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Albert Camus

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

John Steinbeck

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

Kurt Vonnegut

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Mark Twain

Software options proliferate extremely easily – too easily, in fact – because too many options create tools that can’t ever be used intuitively. Intuitive actions confine the detail work to a dedicated part of the brain, leaving the rest of one’s mind free to respond with attention and sensitivity to the changing texture of the moment.

Brian Eno

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

Alan Watts

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

Albert Einstein

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

Walt Disney

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

Richard M. Nixon

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

Alice Walker

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

Stephen King

The problem with real estate is that it’s local. You have to understand the local market.

Robert Kiyosaki

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

William Makepeace Thackeray

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

Niccolo Machiavelli

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

Jim Carrey