100 Great Quotes

100 Great Quotes

Life & Wisdom

1. Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. – John Lennon


2. In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity. – Albert Einstein


3. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson


4. The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, honorable, and compassionate. – Ralph Waldo Emerson


5. Life isn’t about finding yourself. It’s about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw


6. Don’t count the days, make the days count. – Muhammad Ali


7. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius


8. The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. – Oprah Winfrey


9. Turn your wounds into wisdom. – Oprah Winfrey


10. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. – Friedrich Nietzsche



Success & Motivation

11. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. – Henry David Thoreau


12. Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. – John D. Rockefeller


13. I never dreamed about success. I worked for it. – Estée Lauder


14. Opportunities don’t happen. You create them. – Chris Grosser


15. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney


16. Success is not in what you have, but who you are. – Bo Bennett


17. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. – Albert Einstein


18. The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it. – Anonymous


19. Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. – Sam Levenson


20. Fall seven times and stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb



Courage & Strength

21. Courage is grace under pressure. – Ernest Hemingway


22. It always seems impossible until it is done. – Nelson Mandela


23. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson


24. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. – Wayne Gretzky


25. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. – Mahatma Gandhi


26. Do one thing every day that scares you. – Eleanor Roosevelt


27. Fear is only as deep as the mind allows. – Japanese Proverb


28. To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. – Søren Kierkegaard


29. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Confucius


30. Be strong, you never know who you are inspiring. – Anonymous



Knowledge & Learning

31. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. – Benjamin Franklin


32. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. – Nelson Mandela


33. The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. – B.B. King


34. Knowledge is power. – Francis Bacon


35. The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. – Voltaire


36. Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn. – Benjamin Franklin


37. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. – Mahatma Gandhi


38. The expert in anything was once a beginner. – Helen Hayes


39. The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. – Plutarch


40. Wisdom begins in wonder. – Socrates



Love & Kindness

41. Where there is love there is life. – Mahatma Gandhi


42. Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. – William Shakespeare


43. The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. – Audrey Hepburn


44. A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. – Elbert Hubbard


45. Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. – Mark Twain


46. Love is not what you say. Love is what you do. – Anonymous


47. The greatest gift of life is friendship. – Hubert H. Humphrey


48. Do small things with great love. – Mother Teresa


49. Happiness is only real when shared. – Christopher McCandless


50. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle



Time & Patience

51. Time is money. – Benjamin Franklin


52. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. – Leo Tolstoy


53. Lost time is never found again. – Benjamin Franklin


54. Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. – Aristotle


55. The future depends on what you do today. – Mahatma Gandhi


56. Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. – William Shakespeare


57. Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. – Napoleon Hill


58. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. – Mother Teresa


59. Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. – Nathaniel Hawthorne


60. Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting. – Joyce Meyer



Dreams & Goals

61. A goal without a plan is just a wish. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


62. Dream big and dare to fail. – Norman Vaughan


63. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt


64. If you can dream it, you can do it. – Walt Disney


65. Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. – Tony Robbins


66. Don’t limit your challenges, challenge your limits. – Anonymous


67. Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star. – W. Clement Stone


68. Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal. – Earl Nightingale


69. Dreams don’t work unless you do. – John C. Maxwell


70. Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible. – Les Brown



Happiness & Positivity

71. Happiness depends upon ourselves. – Aristotle


72. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. – Mark Twain


73. Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. – John Lennon


74. Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. – Dalai Lama


75. The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage. – Thucydides


76. If you want to be happy, be. – Leo Tolstoy


77. Happiness is a warm puppy. – Charles M. Schulz


78. The only joy in the world is to begin. – Cesare Pavese


79. The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. – William Morris


80. Smile, it’s free therapy. – Douglas Horton



Leadership & Character

81. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. – John C. Maxwell


82. Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge. – Simon Sinek


83. Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. – Albert Schweitzer


84. Great leaders don’t set out to be leaders. They set out to make a difference. – Jeremy Bravo


85. Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you. – Anonymous


86. Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. – C.S. Lewis


87. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. – Warren Bennis


88. People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. – John C. Maxwell


89. A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. – Martin Luther King Jr.


90. The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. – Ralph Nader



Hope & Resilience

91. Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. – Desmond Tutu


92. Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. – Christopher Reeve


93. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. – Henry Ford


94. Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you. – Walt Whitman


95. Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. – Napoleon Hill


96. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt


97. Tough times never last, but tough people do. – Robert H. Schuller


98. The best way out is always through. – Robert Frost


99. Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. – J.K. Rowling


100. Stars can’t shine without darkness. – Anonymous




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