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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We should not look down on our first ancestors.

Alice Walker

It’s rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.

Richard Branson

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Confucius

Industry need not wish.

Benjamin Franklin

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Hosea Ballou

Everybody who makes any kind of policy needs to substitute teach. But you’ve got to be a real teacher. You can’t just go to a couple of classes with the regular teacher there. It is an incredibly hard job.

John Kennedy

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

Nikola Tesla

Force always attracts men of low morality.

Albert Einstein

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

Stephen Hawking

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t.

Marilyn Monroe

I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.

Pope Francis

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

Richard M. Nixon

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

Woody Allen

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Andrew Carnegie

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

Marcus Aurelius

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

Mahatma Gandhi

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Abraham Maslow

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Albert Camus

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

Walt Disney

Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book.

Jim Rohn

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

Thomas Carlyle

Too much TV hurts movies.

Elvis Presley

I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.

Paulo Coelho

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Socrates

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

Rihanna

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

Adam Sandler

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

Marcus Aurelius

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Stephen Covey

In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.

Diogenes

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Napoleon Hill

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Aristotle

Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.

Alice Walker

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don’t care attitude about clothes. You don’t care, you just do it and it looks great.

Vivienne Westwood

I’ve always put everybody else’s child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

Abby Lee Miller

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

Nikola Tesla

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

Benjamin Franklin

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Voltaire

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Hosea Ballou

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

William Makepeace Thackeray

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Jesus Christ

Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I’ll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master… it’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

Charles Bukowski

I’m lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.

Amy Winehouse

A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Mark Twain

Be content to seem what you really are.

Marcus Aurelius

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

Albert Einstein

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

Elvis Presley

But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.

J. K. Rowling

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Coco Chanel

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

Marilyn Monroe

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Herbert Hoover

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

Marcus Aurelius

I own a ’66 Jaguar. That’s the guitar I polish, and baby – I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.

Kurt Cobain

Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

George Lucas

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

Confucius

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

Alice Walker

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

Albert Camus