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. If you would like to know more about one of our negotiation skills courses, then please get in touch.

Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth - that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.
Axel Munthe

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
Isaac Newton

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence and then success is sure.
Mark Twain

A man who makes no mistakes usually does not make anything.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
George Santayana

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Thomas Paine

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Mark Twain

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
Buckminster Fuller

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
W Osler

If you know you want it. Have it.
Gita Bellin

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
Miguel de Cervantes

Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences, as by our expectations.
George Bernard Shaw

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?
The Dhammapada

Do not regret growing older. It's a privilege denied to many.

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