Famous Quotations

Our searchable collection of quotes and aphorisms aims to be the best, not the biggest. Perfect for making a convincing point at the negotiation table, in your speech or presentation.

Each relationship you have with another person reflects the relationaship you have with yourself.
Alice Deville

Out beyond the realm of right and wrong there is a field. I'll meet you there.
Rumi

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Plutarch

The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot

The past is dead, the future is imaginary. Happiness can only be in the Eternal Now Moment.
Ken Keyes Jr

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
Ferdinand Edralin Marcos

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
Doris Lessing

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
Francis Beaumont

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Danny Kaye

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
Diogenes

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

A mistake shows that someone tried to do something.

You can run with the big dogs or sit on the porch and bark.
Wallace Arnold

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Confucius

Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakeable.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe.
Abraham Lincoln

Famous last words: Drink to me.
Pablo Picasso

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