The Top

100 QUOTES

of All Time

Engage the mind and soul with classic quotations featuring authors from the ages, with wit, wisdom, and words that inspire.

100

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

John Keats

99

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway

98

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

97

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

96

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Indira Gandhi

95

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

94

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.Niccolo Machiavelli

93

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Amelia Earhart

92

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Henry James

91

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

90

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Jane Austen

89

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

88

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Francis of Assisi

87

The only journey is the one within.Rainer Maria Rilke

86

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.Will Rogers

85

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.William Blake

84

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.Khalil Gibran

83

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.Aesop

82

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.Karl A. Menninger

81

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.Satchel Paige

80

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.George Washington

79

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Napoleon Hill

78

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Thomas Carlyle

77

Independence is happiness.

Susan B. Anthony

76

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Sun Tzu

75

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Walt Whitman

74

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.Sigmund Freud

73

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

George Orwell

72

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

John Galsworthy

71

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Albert Einstein

70

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Aldous Huxley

69

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

68

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Lao Tzu

67

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

66

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.Jesus Christ

65

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.Edith Wharton

64

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.Samuel Beckett

63

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.Voltaire

62

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.Henry Ford

61

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.Simone de Beauvoir

60

Not all those who wander are lost.J. R. R. Tolkien

59

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Anne Frank

58

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas A. Edison

57

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Benjamin Franklin

56

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Thomas Aquinas

55

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

John C. Maxwell

54

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Marcus Aurelius

53

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.George Sand

52

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

Milton Berle

51

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Mark Twain

50

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

49

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Margaret Mead

48

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Plato

47

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

46

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.Viktor E. Frankl

45

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.Robert H. Schuller

44

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.Plutarch

43

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.Mother Teresa

42

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.Friedrich Nietzsche

41

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.Walt Disney

40

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.William Shakespeare

39

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.Henry David Thoreau

38

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Leo Buscaglia

37

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Swami Vivekananda

36

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Euripides

35

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Desmond Tutu

34

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Soren Kierkegaard

33

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.George Bernard Shaw

32

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.Socrates

31

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.Confucius

30

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.Ingrid Bergman