250 Most Famous Quotes of All Time

250 Most Famous Quotes of All Time

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We have curated the ultimate collection of the most famous quotes from the most famous personalities in the world like Albert Einstein, Michael Jordan, Abraham Lincoln, and many more. Get inspired by our exclusive list of the most famous quotes of all time.

โ€œStay hungry, stay foolish.โ€

Steve Jobs

โ€œInsanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert EinsteinThe greatest wealth is to live content with little.โ€

Plato

โ€œThe future belongs to those who prepare for it today.โ€ย 

Malcolm X
โ€ I have no special talent. I am only passionately curiousโ€

โ€œA great man is always willing to be little.โ€

Ralph Waldo Emerson

โ€œThe root of suffering is attachment.โ€

Buddha

โ€œI think, therefore I am.โ€

Renรฉ Descartes
โ€œIf you judge people, you have no time to love them.โ€

โ€œTo be, or not to be, that is the question.โ€

William Shakespeare

โ€œThatโ€™s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.โ€

Neil Armstrong

โ€œAsk not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.โ€

John F. Kennedy
โ€œAll that we are is the result of what we have thought.โ€

โ€œEarly to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.โ€ย 

Benjamin Franklin

โ€œFamily is the most important thing in the world.โ€

Diana, Princess of Wales

โ€œAll I was doing was trying to get home from work.โ€

Rosa Parks
โ€œThe most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.โ€

โ€œIt is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.โ€

William Shakespeareย 

โ€œIโ€™ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.โ€

Michael Jordan

โ€œFloat like a butterfly, sting like a bee.โ€

Muhammad Ali
โ€œThe greatest wealth is to live content with little.โ€

โ€œIt always seems impossible until itโ€™s done.โ€

Nelson Mandela

โ€œThe unexamined life is not worth living.โ€

Socrates

โ€œThe weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.โ€ย 

Mahatma Gandhi
โ€œToo many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.โ€

โ€œI donโ€™t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.โ€ย 

Anne Frank

โ€œLife is a flower of which love is the honey.โ€

Victor Hugo

โ€œLittle by little, one travels far.โ€

J.R.R. Tolkien
โ€œThose who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.โ€

โ€œA man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.โ€

Malcolm X

โ€œI fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.โ€

Bruce Lee

โ€œYou have power over your mind โ€“ not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.โ€

Marcus Aurelius
โ€œDonโ€™t count the days, make the days count.โ€

โ€œI have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.โ€

Martin Luther King Jr

โ€œImperfection is beauty, madness is genius and itโ€™s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.โ€

Marilyn Monroe

โ€œGod helps those that help themselves.โ€

Benjamin Franklin
โ€œIn order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.โ€

โ€œGenius is eternal patience.โ€

Michelangeloย 

โ€˜Do something worth remembering.โ€

Elvis Presley

โ€œElegance is refusal.โ€

Coco Chanel
โ€œBe kind whenever possible. It is always possible.โ€

โ€œA boo is a lot louder than a cheer.โ€

Lance Armstrong

โ€œIโ€™m not afraid of dying, Iโ€™m afraid of not trying.โ€

Jay-Z

โ€œBe proud of who you are.โ€

Eminem
โ€œWell done is better than well said.โ€

โ€œBetter to build a bridge than a wall.โ€

Elton John

โ€œThe only failure is not to try.โ€

George Clooney

โ€œNobody can hurt me without my permission.โ€

Mahatma Gandhi
โ€œKeep calm and carry on.โ€

โ€œI am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.โ€

Muhammad Ali

โ€œWhatever you do, do with all your might.โ€

Cicero

โ€œMan โ€“ a being in search of meaning.โ€

Plato
โ€œThe future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.โ€

โ€œI donโ€™t make music for eyes. I make music for ears.โ€

Adele

โ€œWe need fantasy to survive reality.โ€

Lady Gaga

โ€œItโ€™s fun to do the impossible.โ€

Walt Disney
โ€œThe journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.โ€

โ€œThere is nothing impossible to him who will try.โ€

Alexander the Great

โ€œStumbling is not falling.โ€

Malcolm X

โ€œIf not us, who? If not now, when?โ€

John F. Kennedy
โ€œIt does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.โ€

โ€œStarting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.โ€

Barack Obama

โ€œDoing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.โ€

Oprah Winfrey

โ€œWhen our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.โ€

Bill Clinton
โ€œTry not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.โ€

โ€œWe are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.โ€

Marilyn Monroe

โ€œFor beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.โ€

Audrey Hepburn

โ€œI am basically a feminist. I think that women can do anything they decide to do.โ€

Grace Kelly
โ€œTurn your wounds into wisdom.โ€

โ€œNever doubt yourself. Never change who you are. Donโ€™t care what people think and just go for it.โ€

Britney Spears

โ€œCreativity is intelligence having fun.โ€

Albert Einstein

โ€œI just donโ€™t want to be hampered by my own limitations.โ€ย 

Barbra Streisand
โ€œItโ€™s not how much you have that makes people look up to you, itโ€™s who you are.โ€

โ€œThose who say it canโ€™t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.โ€

James Baldwin

โ€œPower is not given to you. You have to take it.โ€

Beyoncรฉ

โ€œI have learned over the years that when oneโ€™s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.โ€

Rosa Parks
โ€œDo what you can, with what you have, where you are.โ€

โ€œThe greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.โ€

Nelson Mandela

โ€œIf I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.โ€

Isaac Newton

โ€œOne day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.โ€

Sigmund Freud
โ€œLove all, trust a few, do wrong to none.โ€

โ€œI donโ€™t care what you think of me. I donโ€™t think of you at all.โ€ย 

Coco Chanel

โ€œNo man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.โ€

Abraham Lincoln

โ€œI donโ€™t have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit.โ€

Elizabeth Taylor
โ€œThe path to success is to take massive, determined action.โ€

โ€œIf you canโ€™t convince them, confuse them.โ€

Harry S. Truman

โ€œAlways roll up the sleeves on your shirt. It gives the impression that youโ€™re working, even if youโ€™re not.โ€

Ashton Kutcher

โ€œThe scruffier your beard, the sharper you need to dress.โ€

Ashton Kutcher
โ€œBy failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.โ€

โ€œThe best things in life are free. The second best things are very expensive.โ€

Coco Chanel

โ€œBeing president is like running a cemetery: youโ€™ve got a lot of people under you and nobodyโ€™s listening.โ€

Bill Clinton

โ€œWe are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.โ€

Benjamin Franklin
โ€œFear is stupid. So are regrets.โ€

โ€œI became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.โ€

Edgar Allan Poe

โ€œYou laugh at me because Iโ€™m different. I laugh at you because youโ€™re all the same.โ€

Lady Gaga

โ€œIf you donโ€™t have any shadows youโ€™re not in the light.โ€

Lady Gaga
โ€œWhatever you are, be a good one.โ€

โ€œBetter a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.โ€

Confucius

โ€œOften it isnโ€™t the mountains ahead that wear you out, itโ€™s the little pebble in your shoe.โ€

Muhammad Ali

โ€œNo one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told theyโ€™re pretty, even if they arenโ€™t.โ€

Marilyn Monroe
โ€œGet busy living, or get busy dying.โ€

โ€œIt is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.โ€

Julius Caesar

โ€œYour love makes me strong. Your hate makes me unstoppable.โ€

Cristiano Ronaldo
โ€œNot all those who wander are lost.โ€

โ€œThe two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.โ€

Mark Twain

โ€œA lion doesnโ€™t concern himself with the opinions of the sheep.โ€

Lionel Messi
โ€œBe the hero of your own story.โ€

โ€œI never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. I always felt like an outsider.โ€

Elton John

โ€œBehind every successful person lies a pack of haters.โ€

Eminem
โ€œThe only failure is not to try.โ€

โ€œToo often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.โ€

John F. Kennedy

โ€œStand for something or you will fall for anything. Todayโ€™s mighty oak is yesterdayโ€™s nut that held its ground.โ€

Rosa Parks
โ€œWinners never quit, and quitters never win.โ€

โ€œMan was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.โ€ย 

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

โ€œEvery man is guilty of all the good he did not do.โ€

Voltaire
โ€œYour past does not equal your future.โ€

โ€œWise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.โ€

Plato

โ€œSimplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.โ€

Coco Chanel
โ€œBelieve you can and youโ€™re halfway there.โ€

โ€œSome day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.โ€ย 

C.S. Lewis

โ€œThe most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.โ€

Stephen King
โ€œSimplicity is the ultimate sophistication.โ€

โ€œYou never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.โ€ย 

George Clooney

โ€œA wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown canโ€™t play the part of a wise man.โ€

Malcolm X
โ€œHave no fear of perfection, youโ€™ll never reach it.โ€

โ€œA wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.โ€

Bruce Lee

โ€œI donโ€™t care that they stole my ideaโ€ฆ I care that they donโ€™t have any of their own.โ€

Nikola Tesla
โ€œWhat worries you, masters you.

โ€œTruth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.โ€ย 

Abraham Lincoln

โ€œThere is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.โ€ย 

Peter Drucker
โ€œThe future starts today, not tomorrow.โ€

โ€œPeople are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power.โ€ย 

Bill Clinton

โ€œDoubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.โ€

Voltaire
โ€œYou are what you believe yourself to be.โ€

โ€œScience is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.โ€ย 

Immanuel Kant

โ€œLifeโ€™s simple. You make choices and you donโ€™t look back.โ€ย 

ย Sung Kang (The Fast and The Furious)
โ€œThe best way to predict your future is to create it.โ€

โ€œIf you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.โ€

Steve Jobs

โ€œThe greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.โ€ย 

Nelson Mandela
โ€œEverything negative โ€“ pressure, challenges โ€“ is all an opportunity for me to rise.โ€

โ€œYour time is limited, so donโ€™t waste it living someone elseโ€™s life. Donโ€™t be trapped by dogma โ€“ which is living with the results of other peopleโ€™s thinking.โ€ย 

Steve Jobs

โ€œIf you look at what you have in life, youโ€™ll always have more. If you look at what you donโ€™t have in life, youโ€™ll never have enough.โ€

Oprah Winfrey
โ€œWe donโ€™t want to tell our dreams. We want to show them.โ€

โ€œIf you set your goals ridiculously high and itโ€™s a failure, you will fail above everyone elseโ€™s success.โ€

James Cameron

โ€œSpread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.โ€

Mother Teresa
โ€œDo what you have to do, to do what you want to do.โ€

โ€œDonโ€™t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.โ€

Robert Louis Stevenson

โ€œThe future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.โ€ย 

Eleanor Roosevelt
โ€œLearn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.โ€

โ€œIt is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.โ€

Aristotle

ย โ€œSpread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.โ€

Mother Teresa
โ€œYouโ€™ll never find a rainbow if youโ€™re looking down.โ€

โ€œWhen you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.โ€

Franklin D. Roosevelt

โ€œAlways remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.โ€ย 

Margaret Mead
โ€œIf you let your head get too big, itโ€™ll break your neck.โ€

โ€œDonโ€™t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.โ€

Robert Louis Stevenson

โ€œThe future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.โ€

Eleanor Roosevelt
โ€œIf you donโ€™t have any shadows youโ€™re not in the light.โ€

โ€œTell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.โ€ย 

Benjamin Franklin

โ€œThe best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched โ€“ they must be felt with the heart.โ€

Helen Keller
โ€œKnowing is not enough; we must apply. Willingness is not enough; we must do.โ€

โ€œIt is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.โ€

Aristotle

โ€œWhoever is happy will make others happy too.โ€ย 

Anne Frank
โ€œTruth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ainโ€™t going away.โ€

โ€œDo not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.โ€

Ralph Waldo Emerson

โ€œNever let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.โ€

Babe Ruth
โ€œLife is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.โ€

โ€œMany of lifeโ€™s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.โ€ย 

Thomas A. Edison

โ€œYou have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.โ€

Dr. Seuss
โ€œThe biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.โ€

ย โ€œIf life were predictable it would cease to be life and be without flavor.โ€

Eleanor Roosevelt

โ€œIn the end, itโ€™s not the years in your life that count. Itโ€™s the life in your years.โ€

Abraham Lincoln
โ€œNothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.โ€

โ€œLife is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.โ€

Ralph Waldo Emerson

โ€œYou will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.โ€

Maya Angelou
โ€œHurt me with the truth. Donโ€™t comfort me with a lie.โ€

ย โ€œNever let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.โ€

Babe Ruth

โ€œLife is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.โ€

Oscar Wilde
โ€œItโ€™s easy to fool the eye but itโ€™s hard to fool the heart.โ€

โ€œThe only impossible journey is the one you never begin.โ€

Tony Robbins

โ€œIn this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.โ€

Mother Teresa
โ€œIt is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.โ€

โ€œOnly a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.โ€

Albert Einstein

โ€œThe purpose of our lives is to be happy.โ€

Dalai Lama
โ€œThe truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.โ€

โ€œLife is what happens when youโ€™re busy making other plans.โ€

John Lennon

โ€œYou only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.โ€

Mae West
โ€œWe must use time as a tool, not as a couch.โ€

โ€œLive in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.โ€ย 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

โ€œGo confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life youโ€™ve imagined.โ€

Henry David Thoreau
โ€œYou should never take more than you give.โ€

โ€œThe greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.โ€

Nelson Mandela

ย โ€œLife is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.โ€

Confucius
โ€œTake a long pauseโ€ฆbreathe and know that things are happening for you not to you.โ€

โ€œMay you live all the days of your life.โ€ย 

Jonathan Swift

โ€œLife itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.โ€

Hans Christian Andersen
โ€œOnce youโ€™ve accepted your flaws no one can use them against you.โ€

โ€œDo not let making a living prevent you from making a life.โ€

John Wooden

โ€œLife is ours to be spent, not to be saved.โ€ย 

D. H. Lawrence
โ€œA fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.โ€

โ€œKeep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and thereโ€™s so much to smile about.โ€ย 

Marilyn Monroe

โ€œLife is a long lesson in humility.โ€

James M. Barrie
โ€œSomeoneโ€™s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.โ€

โ€œIn three words I can sum up everything Iโ€™ve learned about life: it goes on.โ€

Robert Frost

โ€œLove the life you live. Live the life you love.โ€

Bob Marley
โ€œHonesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.โ€

โ€œLife is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.โ€

Helen Keller

โ€œYou have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.โ€

Dr. Seuss
โ€œLife is like a box of chocolates. You never know what youโ€™re going to get.โ€

โ€œLife is made of ever so many partings welded together.โ€

Charles Dickens

ย โ€œYour time is limited, so donโ€™t waste it living someone elseโ€™s life. Donโ€™t be trapped by dogma โ€” which is living with the results of other peopleโ€™s thinking.โ€

Steve Jobs
โ€œThe way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.โ€

โ€œLife is trying things to see if they work.โ€ย 

Ray Bradbury

โ€œMany of lifeโ€™s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.โ€ย 

Thomas A. Edison
โ€œIf life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.โ€

โ€œA successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.โ€ย 

David Brinkley

โ€œThings work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.โ€ย 

John Wooden
โ€œWhen you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.โ€

ย โ€œTry not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.โ€

Albert Einstein

โ€œDonโ€™t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.โ€ย 

John D. Rockefeller
โ€œLife is what happens when youโ€™re busy making other plans.โ€

ย โ€œAlways bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.โ€

Abraham Lincoln

โ€œSuccess is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.โ€

Winston Churchill
โ€œAlways remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.โ€

โ€œYou know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it.โ€ย 

Oprah Winfrey

โ€œIf you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.โ€ย 

Thomas J. Watson
โ€œTell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.โ€

โ€œIf you genuinely want something, donโ€™t wait for it โ€” teach yourself to be impatient.โ€ย 

Gurbaksh Chahal

โ€œThe only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.โ€

Vidal Sassoon
โ€œThe best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched โ€“ they must be felt with the heart.โ€

ย โ€œIf you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.โ€

ย Jim Rohn

โ€œBefore anything else, preparation is the key to success.โ€

Alexander Graham Bell
โ€œWhoever is happy will make others happy too.โ€

โ€œWhether you think you can or you think you canโ€™t, youโ€™re right.โ€

Henry Ford

โ€œI have learned over the years that when oneโ€™s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.โ€

Rosa Parks
โ€œDo not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.โ€

โ€œI alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.โ€

ย Mother Teresa

โ€œNothing is impossible, the word itself says, โ€˜Iโ€™m possible!'โ€

Audrey Hepburn
โ€œYou will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.โ€

โ€œThe question isnโ€™t who is going to let me; itโ€™s who is going to stop me.โ€

Ayn Rand

โ€œThe only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.โ€ย 

Ralph Waldo Emerson
โ€œThe greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.โ€

โ€œBelieve you can and youโ€™re halfway there.โ€ย 

Theodore Roosevelt

โ€œHow wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.โ€

Anne Frank
โ€œIn the end, itโ€™s not the years in your life that count. Itโ€™s the life in your years.โ€

โ€œYou become what you believe.โ€

Oprah Winfrey

โ€œAn unexamined life is not worth living.โ€

Socrates

โ€œEverything youโ€™ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.โ€ย 

George Addair
โ€œLife is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.โ€

โ€œDream big and dare to fail.โ€

Norman Vaughan

โ€œYou may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you donโ€™t try.โ€

Beverly Sills

โ€œIt does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.โ€ย 

Confucius
โ€œMany of lifeโ€™s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.โ€

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