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 keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Sophocles

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
Socrates

Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Jackson

It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Zig Ziglar

If you're going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
Maya Angelou

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde

Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, it's the realization of how much you already have.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle

A wave of enthusiasm is seldom a permanent wave.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
Demosthenes

One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.
Sigmund Freud

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing
Edmund Burke

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Oliver Goldsmith

The fates lead him who will - him who won't they drag.
Seneca

Knowing and not doing are equal to not knowing at all.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein

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