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.

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
Dante

Bad politicians are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C Clarke

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Pierre Corneille

Aspire not to have more, but to be more.
Oscar Romero

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein

That must be wonderful; I don't understand it at all.
Moliare

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.
Confucius

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Thomas Edison

At the age of 20, we don't care what the world thinks of us; at 30, we worry about what it is thinking of us; at 40, we discover that it wasn't thinking of us at all.

If a man labels you falsely, the fault is his. If you live by that label, the fault is yours.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time
Confucius

What seemed like failure can be thought of as success that stopped too soon.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.
Henry David Thoreau

Education is not received. It is achieved.

Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
William M Thackeray

Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humour was provided to console him for what he is.
Oscar Wilde

Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare - Hamlet

People don't quit companies. They quit managers and bosses.

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