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.

The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our action.
Andre Godin

All sorrows can be borne if we tell a story about them.
Isak Denisen

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.
John and Lyn St Clair Thomas

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
Voltaire

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

Do not run through life so fast that you forget not only where you have been, but also where you are going.

Though no-one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new end.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
Oliver Goldsmith

He who laughs, lasts.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have a primary responsibility to myself; to make myself into the best person I can possibly be. Then and only then, will I have something worthwhile to share.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin

To appreciate beauty, first understand the beholder.

Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes, the subconscious identically creates.
Brian Adams

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Churchill

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
John Erskine

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