Top 50 Quotes voted by our visitors

These effective expressions function as directing beacons, promoting both thought and feeling. They serve to encourage us throughout life's obstacles and to celebrate its triumphes. Drawing from a varied range of voices - from philosophers to poets, leaders to innovators - these quotes catch the human experience in all its complexity. Whether you're looking for inspiration, motivation, or a fresh point of view, let these words assist you navigate life's journey and discover delight in every minute.

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"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

Marion C. Garretty, Poet

"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

"The tiger is a magnificent creature and one that is threatened by human activities on all fronts. It is up to us to protect this iconic species and ensure that it has a future in the wild"

Peter Knights, Activist

"The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water"

Sophocles, Author

"Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

"Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work"

Stephen King, Author

"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem"

David Carradine, Actor

"Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek"

Dan Rather, Journalist

"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Music is my religion"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

"It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are"

Clive James, Author

"Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides"

David Hare, Playwright

"The biggest coward is a man who awakens a woman’s love with no intention of loving her"

Bob Marley, Musician

"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Buildings should serve people, not the other way around"

John Portman, Architect

"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!"

Miles Davis, Musician

"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool"

Stephen King, Author

"Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature"

Marilyn Monroe, Actress

"I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog"

Whitey Herzog, Athlete

"Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing"

Gail Sheehy, Writer