Best Quotes Around the World

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

I’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

I’m a problem-solver.

My mom had Julia Child and ‚The Fannie Farmer Cookbook‘ on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

I don’t have a magic formula for prioritizing the world’s problems.

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.

I don’t drink at all.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

I always say I’m one of the toughest mama’s boys you’re ever gonna meet. And I say that to send a message to all the young thugs out there; that it’s nothing to be ashamed of to say you love your mother.

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye. He set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still, to this day, I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

I view myself as being the average woman. While I am first lady, I wasn’t first lady my whole life. I’m a product of pop culture. I’m a consumer of pop culture, and I know what resonates with people.

I know that I’ve been guided by God. I am obedient.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

Silence is a source of great strength.

Precaution is better than cure.

‚Leading man‘ just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

When my book ‚Rich Dad’s Prophecy‘ was released in 2002, most financial newspapers and magazines trashed it because I discussed a looming stock market crash.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

My preparation is about precision. It is a science.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

I can’t very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.

I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

I wouldn’t wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don’t think it’s necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.

I think there’s every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

I worked my face off.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

The Bush Administration’s failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

I’m Machiavelli’s offspring, I’m the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.

I don’t even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.

I absolutely believed when I was young because the Tooth Fairy was always good to me. The Tooth Fairy generally left me a dollar or two dollars and, as a kid, that was a lot of money.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.