Every quote, in one place.

Our whole collection, newest first — 6,240 quotations. Looking for someone in particular? Browse by author.

“In art the best is good enough.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Work is always an antidote to depression.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Believe you can and you will be halfway there.”
— Lolly Daskal
“I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.”
— Taylor Swift
“The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.”
— John Holt
“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.”
— Honoré de Balzac
“Silence alone is worthy to be heard.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
“If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
— Stephen Hawking
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.”
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.”
— Buddha
“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”
— Lily Tomlin
“To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.”
— Joan Didion
“The four P's to success are pressure, persistence, perseverance, and prayer.”
— Steve Harvey
“Your past does not equal your future.”
— Tony Robbins
“The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.”
— Charles Du Bos
“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.”
— Walt Whitman
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
— Carl Jung
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
— Robert F. Kennedy
“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
— Thomas Sowell
“Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.”
— Frank Borman
“Forgive those who have hurt you.”
— Les Brown

Building something with this content? MeBot answers your visitors' questions on your own site.