Best Quotes Around the World

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Integrity has no need of rules.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Hope is a waking dream.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

Everybody likes a compliment.

Aim for the highest.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full advantage of its use and benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

The most important question in the world is, ‚Why is the child crying?‘

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

I am rather inclined to silence.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise… Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.