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.

People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them.
Richard M Nixon

He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.
Theognis

Fear is interest paid on a debt you may not owe.

Wise men know their limits; great men know none.
Prophet X

If there is no wind, row.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Socrates

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.
Seneca

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Michel de Montaigne

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Marianne Williamson

Go put your creed into your deed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Money is better than poverty if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen

Others can get in your way temporarily, but only you can get out of your way permanently.

I'll Plan for the Future and I'll decide for the Present But I'll not plan for the Present Nor will I decide for the Future.
Jose L Menendez

Happiness is not a destination, it is the journey.

May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
Seneca

Forgiving is not forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt.
Mary McLeod Bethune

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
Federico Fellini

Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it.
William James

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