Every quote, in one place.

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

“My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. Everybody drinks water.”
— Mark Twain
“People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.”
— Mary Engelbreit
“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
— Maya Angelou
“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
— Phil Jackson
“All know the way; few actually walk it. ”
— Bodhidharma
“Don't waste your energy on being angry at something that somebody did six months ago or a year ago. It's over.”
— Joan Rivers
“We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.”
— Tony Robbins
“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“Balance is not something you find, it's something you create.”
— Jana Kingsford
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.”
— Confucius
“To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.”
— Buddha
“The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.”
— Laura Bush
“The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.”
— Will Rogers
“Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.”
— Sigmund Freud
“We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.”
— Earl Nightingale
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.”
— Colin Powell
“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”
— Voltaire
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”
— Winston Churchill
“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”
— C. S. Lewis
“People really don’t like to hear success explained away as luck — especially successful people.”
— Michael Lewis
“Everyday you can take a tiny step in the right direction.”
— Unknown

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