Every quote, in one place.

Our whole collection, newest first — 6,231 quotations. Looking for someone in particular? Browse by author.

“The best protection any woman can have... is courage.”
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“Do something worth remembering.”
Elvis Presley
“There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.”
Peter A. Cohen
“People inspire you, or they drain you. Pick them wisely.”
Les Brown
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”
Chinese Proverb
“Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.”
Mark Twain
“Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude.”
Roy T. Bennett
“The fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly.”
Spencer Johnson
“Don't worry about being successful, but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”
Marcus Aurelius
“When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way. ”
Wayne Dyer
“Falling down is not failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.”
Socrates
“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo—far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.”
Jodi Picoult
“We inherit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted. Each of us contains within this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.”
— Edward Sellner
“Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is actively waiting before taking action.”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“I would kiss you, had I the courage.”
— Edouard Manet
“America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.”
Sigmund Freud
“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”
George Eliot
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
Winston Churchill
“It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.”
Will Rogers
“Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.”
H. G. Wells
“I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.”
D. H. Lawrence
“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”
Elon Musk
“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
Dalai Lama

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