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Best Quotes of All Time
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Age
“The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”
- Lucille Ball
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
- Mark Twain
“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.”
- Victor Hugo
“The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know
everything.”
- Oscar Wilde
“Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”
- Benjamin Franklin
“Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone
rings and you hope it isn’t for you.”
- Ogden Nash
Anger
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“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
“In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your
anger and your energy into something positive.”
- Lee Iacocca
“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it
all clean.”
- Maya Angelou
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Mark Twain
“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman
scorned.”
- William Congreve
“You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”
- Buddha
“Anyone can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at
the right time and for the right purpose and in
the right way – that is not within everyone’s
power and that is not easy.” Additions
- Aristotle When I felt miserable, I ran fast
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____________ much that I no longer cared
about anything else.
Beauty
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- Leo Tolstoy
- Margaret Hungerford
“I’m tired of all the nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep
enough. What do you want – an adorable pancreas?”
- Jean Kerr
- Confucius
“Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty – they merely
move it from their faces into their hearts.”
- Martin Buxbaum
“It is not beauty that endears; it’s love that makes us see beauty.”
- Leo Tolstoy
Business
“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about
profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”
- Henry Ford
“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and
work twelve hours a day.”
- Robert Frost
- Sigourney Weaver
- Aristotle Onassis
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Henry Kravis
“Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don’t think the product
is good, you have no business to be advertising it.”
- David Ogilvy
- Benjamin Franklin
Additions
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We are responsible for our
feelings.
Change
- Mahatma Gandhi
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by
merely changing his attitude.”
- Oprah Winfrey
“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution
which rejects progress is the cemetery.”
- Harold Wilson
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their
minds cannot change anything.”
“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little
chance you have in trying to change others.”
- Jacob M. Braude
- Confucius
Additions
“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable,
and remove yourself from the unacceptable.” My mother always told me not to
handle a buffalo by its tail, but
- Denis Waitley always catch it by its horns. And I
have used that lesson in everything
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Children
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“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up
’cause they’re looking for ideas.”
- Paula Poundstone
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have
never failed to imitate them.”
- James Baldwin
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Herbert Hoover
- Martin Mull
“Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your
rest home.”
- Phyllis Diller
“There’s nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to
explain them to an inquisitive child.”
- Frank A. Clark
Additions
“Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the If you really think your teacher
world is done by children.” is tough, wait until you get a
boss. He does not have tenure.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Ernest Hamingway Mark Twain Oscar Wildie Willl Rogers Winston Churchil
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Courage
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“It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.”
- E.E. Cummings
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit
down and listen.”
- Winston Churchill
- Ernest Hemingway
- John Wayne
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral
courage so rare.”
- Mark Twain
“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
- Bruce Lee
“Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.”
- John Wooden
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Death
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
- Benjamin Franklin
- Buddha
- Mark Twain
“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse
every time Congress meets.”
- Will Rogers
“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”
- Leonardo da Vinci
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared
to die at any time.”
- Mark Twain
“No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be
the greatestgood.”
- Plato
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Education
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- Aristotle
“Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.”
- Pete Seeger
- Socrates
“To repeat what others have said requires education. To challenge it requires
brains.”
“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely
uneducated.”
- Alec Bourne
“Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few
employers are interested in helping you find yourself.”
- Bill Gates
- Albert Einstein
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Equality
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“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.”
- Aristotle
- Irving Kristol
“As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not
an empirical claim that people are clones.”
- Steven Pinker
“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”
- George Orwell
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Albert Einstein
“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything.
If you’re a man, you take it.”
- Malcolm X
Additions
“The sole equality on earth is death.”
Let us sacrifice our today so that
- Philip James Bailey our children can have a better
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Family
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“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is
the family.”
- Lee Iacocca
- George Burns
“You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise
children ? Those who’ve never had any.”
- Bill Cosby
“Family isn’t about whose blood you have. It’s about who you care about.”
“All happy families resemble one another. Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own
way.”
- Leo Tolstoy
“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we
live.”
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Love
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“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
- Aristotle
- Robert Heinlein
- Jeremy Taylor
“Love doesn’t make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
- Elizabeth Browning
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Jean Anouilh
- Mark Twain
“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into
friendship.”
- Lord Byron
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Money
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It
was here first.”
- Mark Twain
“I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are
greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.”
- Warren Buffet
“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it
back when it begins to rain.”
- Robert Frost
- Nelson Mandela
“Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on
the ‘gotta have it’ scale.”
- Zig Ziglar
“Time is money.”
- Benjamin Franklin
“If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you
get older, the money will become your sex appeal.”
- Katherine Hepburn
- Edith Wharton
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Movies
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“This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some
country.”
- Clint Eastwood
- Steve Martin
- David Mamet
“Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.”
- Billy Wilder
“The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.”
- Jodie Foster
“Every great film should seem new every time you see it.”
- Roger Ebert
“Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of
entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.”
- Walt Disney
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Music
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“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.”
- Ed Gardner
- Robert Fripp
“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to
- Plato
- Ronald Reagan
- Lao Tzu
“I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.”
- Elvis Presley
- Jimi Hendrix
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War
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV
will be fought with sticks and stones.”
- Albert Einstein
- George Patton
“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.”
- Jeannette Rankin
- Benjamin Franklin
“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless whether
the mad destruction
is brought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and
democracy?”
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Dwight Eisenhower
“It is well that war is so terrible – otherwise we would grow too fond of it.”
- Robert E. Lee
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Oprah Winfrey Bruce Lee Albert Einstein Bill Gates Abdul Kalam
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Success
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
- Henry Ford
- Winston Churchill
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please
everybody.”
- Bill Cosby
- Woody Allen
- Benjamin Franklin
- David Allen
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.”
- Aristotle
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Sports
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- Vince Lombardi
- Rodney Dangerfield
- George F. Will
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Vince Lombardi
- Anthony Starr
“The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey.
The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares
about the name on the back.”
- Steve Garvey
- Nick Seitz
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Fighting for peace is like
screwing for virginity.
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Science
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“Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.”
- Bertrand Russell
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster
than society gathers wisdom.”
- Isaac Asimov
“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover
new ways of thinking about them.”
“New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for
those who still would adventure.”
- Herbert Hoover
“However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent
possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.”
- Lewis Mumford
“I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his
laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural
phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.”
- Marie Curie
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Additions
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Peace begins with a smile.
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Other Quotes
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- Friedrich Nietzche
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”
- Henry Ford
“If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems.”
- Frank Wilczek
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”
- Benjamin Franklin
“As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.”
- Abdul Kalam