Every quote, in one place.

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

“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.”
— Amelia Earhart
“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”
— Samuel Johnson
“The primary point of this existence is to live, and all living things move and grow.”
— Ming-Dao Deng
“Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.”
— Michael Jordan
“You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once. ”
— Oprah Winfrey
“If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
— Toni Morrison
“Patience is a bitter plant, but its fruit is sweet.”
— Chinese Proverb
“May you find grace as you surrender to life. May you find happiness, as you stop seeking it.”
— Dan Millman
“He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.”
— Plato
“If you want to be successful, you have to jump, there's no way around it.”
— Steve Harvey
“I know of only one duty, and that is to love.”
— Albert Camus
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.”
— George Orwell
“Look to the beauty of this day, miracles are all around you.”
— Mary Engelbreit
“The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.”
— Elbert Hubbard
“Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.”
— Andrew Carnegie
“The fewer the words, the better the prayer.”
— Martin Luther
“Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.”
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.”
— Confucius
“Small is the number of them that build upon their boys, the foundation they had lain before.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“I cannot be awake, for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake, for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.”
— Walt Whitman
“Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.”
— Carl Sandburg
“If you quit once it becomes a habit.”
— Michael Jordan
“The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone who is not a champion.”
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Don't find fault, find a remedy.”
— Henry Ford

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