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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Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

Robert Baden-Powell

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

Wayne Dyer

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

Groucho Marx

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

Lou Holtz

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories – not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father’s generation. It’s a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

Haruki Murakami

The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws.

Noam Chomsky

Everybody has a purpose.

Dolly Parton

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

George Orwell

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.

Paul Auster

I’m most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page… sunrise over the desert and masses of… a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.

Anthony Hopkins

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I didn’t play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college.

Joe Biden

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.

Bill Gates

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably ‚Doctor Who.‘ What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

Terry Pratchett

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

George W. Bush

We can approach God’s throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.

Joyce Meyer

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

Robert Kiyosaki

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

Barack Obama

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

Henry Kissinger

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

The Weeknd

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I’m proud of.

Taylor Swift

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

Conor McGregor

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

George Carlin

But I did ‚Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.‘ They made a cereal out of it, so once you’ve had a cereal, it doesn’t get much more surreal than that. Surreal cereal.

Keanu Reeves

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

Nelson Mandela

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

Jurgen Klopp

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

Frank Ocean

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

Bob Dylan

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Bertrand Russell

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

George Bernard Shaw

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‚Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.‘

Dwayne Johnson

I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.

Jordan Peterson

Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.

Hunter S. Thompson

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

Christopher Hitchens

I’ve sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don’t need sauce. I know he doesn’t even want you to pour sauce. And I’ve seen customers come in and do that, and I’ve seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I’ve seen him die a little inside.

Anthony Bourdain

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

Thomas Sowell

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

Winston Churchill

Christmas means a great deal to me. I was reared in a family that celebrated Christmas to some extent, but I married into a family that celebrated Christmas in a big way. And my wife always made a big thing of Christmas for the children. We have five children, and we had a terrific time at Christmas.

Billy Graham

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

Richard M. Nixon

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.

Nipsey Hussle

Our veterans who fall on hard times and find themselves without a home deserve more than just handwringing or kind words. They deserve real help that gets them back on their feet.

Michelle Obama

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

Kendrick Lamar

I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

Pope Francis

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

Mr. T

Water’s never clumsy.

Matthew McConaughey

I’m not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.

Lady Gaga

We would like to see you departing peacefully.

Desmond Tutu

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Thomas Jefferson

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

Colin Powell

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

Noam Chomsky

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

Wayne Dyer

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.

Richard Branson

The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it’s actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions… If people feel like they don’t have control over how they’re sharing things, then we’re failing them.

Mark Zuckerberg

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

Maya Angelou