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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If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

J. Cole

That’s the thing about pictures: they seduce you.

David Byrne

And you know, I’ve had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on.

Richard Branson

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

Maya Angelou

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

Henry Kissinger

On engagement, we’re already seeing that mobile users are more likely to be daily active users than desktop users. They’re more likely to use Facebook six or seven days of the week.

Mark Zuckerberg

Certainly, the Windows share of servers is strong.

Bill Gates

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Elbert Hubbard

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

George Bernard Shaw

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

Richard M. Nixon

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Theodore Roosevelt

There’s only one person in this race who will be there, who’s always been there for you, and that’s Hillary Clinton’s life story.

Joe Biden

Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.

Florence Nightingale

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

Dalai Lama

When Christians say God has been talking to them about something, it simply means they have a strong inner conviction or feeling that God has made His will known to them.

Billy Graham

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

Margaret Atwood

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

Wayne Dyer

I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

Dan Quayle

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.

Bad Bunny

Not only do I not know what’s going on, I wouldn’t know what to do about it if I did.

George Carlin

It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.

Jordan Peterson

The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his ‚basic rights.‘

Thomas Sowell

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

Paul Auster

I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.

Richard P. Feynman

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

Joyce Meyer

When you’re not engaged in the day-to-day struggles that everybody feels, you slowly start losing touch. And I think it’s important for the people in the White House to have a finger on the pulse.

Michelle Obama

Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

George Eliot

When I’m in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself ‚why?‘

Jackie Chan

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

Henry David Thoreau

I’ve been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

Dolly Parton

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt.

Barack Obama

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

Richard Branson

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

Jimmy Buffett

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Blaise Pascal

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

Robert Frost

The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That’s what happens in all of them.

Matthew McConaughey

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

Lyndon B. Johnson

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

Hunter S. Thompson

I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.

Ariana Grande

Anarchism means all sort of things to different people, but the traditional anarchists‘ movements assumed that there’d be a highly organized society, just one organized from below with direct participation and so on.

Noam Chomsky

I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.

Taylor Swift

I actually don’t want a throne at all, because I don’t view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

Lady Gaga

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

Winston Churchill

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

Joel Osteen

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

Sunil Chhetri

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

John Ruskin

The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.

Nelson Mandela

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

Nipsey Hussle

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

Beyonce Knowles

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

Dwayne Johnson

I’m a trained fine artist. I went to art school from the time I was 5 years old. I was, like, a prodigy out of Chicago. I’d been in national competitions from the age of 14.

Kanye West

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

Frank Ocean

I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.

Jurgen Klopp

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

The Weeknd

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

Anthony Hopkins

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Baruch Spinoza