Age

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on age:

“The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”

- Lucille Ball

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”

- Henry Ford

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

- George Bernard Shaw

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”

- Mark Twain

“No one is so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”

- Henry David Thoreau

“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.”

- Victor Hugo

“The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.”

- Oscar Wilde

“Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”

- Benjamin Franklin

“Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you.”

- Ogden Nash

“You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.”

- Bob Hope

Anger

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on anger:

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.”

- Lee Iacocca

“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”

- Maya Angelou

“He who angers you conquers you.”

- Elizabeth Kenny

“Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.”

- Mohandas Gandhi

“When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.”

- Mark Twain

“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”

- William Congreve

“You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”

- Buddha

“Anyone can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time and for the right purpose and in the right way – that is not within everyone’s power and that is not easy.”

- Aristotle

“Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.”

- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Beauty

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on beauty:

“Beauty, without expression, tires.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”

- Leo Tolstoy

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”

- Margaret Hungerford

“I’m tired of all the nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want – an adorable pancreas?”

- Jean Kerr

“Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.”

- Confucius

“Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty – they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.”

- Martin Buxbaum

“It is not beauty that endears; it’s love that makes us see beauty.”

- Leo Tolstoy

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”

- Dorothy Parker

“You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else.”

- Chuck Palahniuk

“Beauty is whatever gives joy.”

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Business

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on business:

“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”

- Henry Ford

“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”

- Robert Frost

“Never burn bridges. Today’s junior jerk, tomorrow’s senior partner.”

- Sigourney Weaver

“The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.”

- Aristotle Onassis

“It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with your business.”

- William J. H. Boetcker

“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.”

- Kahlil Gibran

“A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.”

- Henry Kravis

“Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don’t think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.”

- David Ogilvy

“Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.”

- Benjamin Franklin

Change

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on change:

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

- Gandhi

“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”

- Oprah Winfrey

“The only thing constant in life is change.”

- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.”

- Harold Wilson

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

- George Bernard Shaw

“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.”

- Jacob M. Braude

“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

- Charles Darwin

“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.”

- Confucius

“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.”

- Denis Waitley

Children

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on children:

“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.”

- Paula Poundstone

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”

- James Baldwin

“Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.”

- Robert A. Heinlein

“There’s nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.”

- Frank A. Clark

“Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.”

- Stacia Tauscher

“We cannot always build the future of our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“Children are our most valuable resource.”

- Herbert Hoover

“Never underestimate a child’s ability to get into more trouble.”

- Martin Mull

“Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.”

- Phyllis Diller

Courage

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on courage:

“It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.”

- E.E. Cummings

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

- Winston Churchill

“Courage is grace under pressure.”

- Ernest Hemingway

“Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.”

- John Wayne

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”

- Mark Twain

“Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”

- Ambrose Redmoon

“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”

- Bruce Lee

“Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.”

- John Wooden

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says ‘I’ll try again tomorrow.’”

- Mary Anne Radmacher

“Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.”

- Confucius

Death

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on death:

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

- Benjamin Franklin

“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”

- Buddha

“Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.”

- Albert Einstein

“The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”

- Mark Twain

“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.”

- Will Rogers

“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”

- Leonardo da Vinci

“The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”

- Edgar Allan Poe

“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

- Mark Twain

“No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.”

- Plato

Education / Wisdom

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on education:

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

- Aristotle

“Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.”

- Pete Seeger

“The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.”

- Socrates

“To repeat what others have said requires education. To challenge it requires brains.”

- Marry Pettibone Poole

“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.”

- Alec Bourne

“Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.”

- Bill Gates

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”

- Albert Einstein

“Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.”

- Wu Ting-Fang

“Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.”

­- Plato

“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”

- Malcolm Forbes

Equality

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on equality:

“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.”

- Aristotle

“Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions. It only guarantees equality of opportunity.”

- Irving Kristol

“As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.”

- Steven Pinker

“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”

- George Orwell

“I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.”

- Mohandas Gandhi

“Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.”

- Albert Einstein

“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.”

- Malcolm X

“The sole equality on earth is death.”

- Philip James Bailey

“To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.”

- William Faulkner

“Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.”

- Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

Family

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on family:

“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family.”

- Lee Iacocca

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”

- George Burns

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”

- George Bernard Shaw

“You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who’ve never had any.”

- Bill Cosby

“Family isn’t about whose blood you have. It’s about who you care about.”

- Trey Parker and Matt Stone

“All happy families resemble one another. Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

- Leo Tolstoy

“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.”

- Jane Howard

“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”

- Desmond Tutu

“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.”

- Pope John Paul II

“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”

- George Bernard Shaw

Friendship

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on friends:

“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.”

- Albert Camus

“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”

- Aristotle

“Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you.”

- Elbert Hubbard

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”

- Dale Carnegie

“True friends stab you in the front.”

- Oscar Wilde

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”

- Helen Keller

“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.”

- Abraham Lincoln

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value. Rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”

- C. S. Lewis

“There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.”

- William Butler Yeats

“Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.”

- George Eliot

Happiness

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on happiness:

“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

- Abraham Lincoln

“Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer somebody else up.”

- Mark Twain

“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

“It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.”

- Dalai Lama

“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”

- Robert Frost

“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”

- Eleanor Roosevelt

“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.”

- Storm Jameson

“The U.S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.”

- Benjamin Franklin

“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”

- Albert Schweitzer

Humor

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on humor (or just humorous quotes we love):

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

- Oscar Wilde

“There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?”

- Dick Cavett

“Never be afraid to laugh at yourself. After all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.”

- Dame Edna Everage

“That is the saving grace of humor. If you fail no one is laughing at you.”

- A. Whitney Brown

“Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.”

- Christopher Morely

“Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.”

- Salma Hayek

“The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.”

- E.B. White

“You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.”

- Frank Howard Clark

Love

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on love:

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”

- Aristotle

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

- Robert Heinlein

“Love is friendship, set on fire.”

- Jeremy Taylor

“Love doesn’t make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”

- Elizabeth Browning

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.”

- Jean Anouilh

“Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.”

- Amy Bloom

“Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”

- Mark Twain

“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”

- Lord Byron

“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”

- Maya Angelou

Men and Women

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on men and women:

“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.”

- Robert Frost

“Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.”

- Albert Einstein

“Men are what their mothers made them.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.”

- Margaret Fuller

“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”

- Plato

“For most of history, ‘Anonymous’ was a woman.”

- Virginia Woolf

“Women are made to be loved, not understood.”

- Oscar Wilde

“There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.”

- Will Rogers

“Women don’t want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think – in a deeper voice.”

- Bill Cosby

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”

- Timothy Leary

Money

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on money:

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

- Mark Twain

“I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.”

- Warren Buffet

“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.”

- Robert Frost

“Money won’t create success. The freedom to make it will.”

- Nelson Mandela

“Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.”

- Zig Ziglar

“Time is money.”

- Benjamin Franklin

“If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.”

- Katherine Hepburn

“It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.”

- Logan Pearsall Smith

“The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.”

- Edith Wharton

“I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself – in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.”

- Henry Ford

Movies

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on movies (about movies, not quotes from movies):

“This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.”

- Clint Eastwood

“All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.”

- Steve Martin

“A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.”

- David Mamet

“Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.”

- Billy Wilder

“The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.”

- Jodie Foster

“A film has its own life and takes its own time.”

- Aaron Eckhart

“Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.”

- Walt Disney

“The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman, and have a French boyfriend.”

- Katharine Hepburn

“In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.”

- Gwyneth Paltrow

“Every great film should seem new every time you see it.”

- Roger Ebert

Music

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on music:

“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.”

- Ed Gardner

“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”

- Robert Fripp

“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.”

- Plato

“Life is one grand, sweet song so start the music.”

- Ronald Reagan

“Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.”

- Bill Cosby

“Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.”

- Samuel Johnson

“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”

- Lao Tzu

“I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.”

- Elvis Presley

“Music is a safe kind of high.”

- Jimi Hendrix

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”

- Victor Hugo

Peace

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on peace:

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.”

- John Lennon

“Peace begins with a smile.”

- Mother Teresa

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”

- Albert Einstein

“Peace is its own reward.”

- Mohandas Gandhi

“If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”

- Moshe Dayan

“The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.”

- Jawaharlal Nehru

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”

- George Carlin

“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”

- Dalai Lama

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”

- Buddha

“It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Politics

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on politics:

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”

- Plato

“Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.”

- Thomas Jefferson

“I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.”

- Charles De Gaulle

“Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important.”

- Eugene McCarthy

“Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.”

- Winston Churchill

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

- H.L. Mencken

“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.”

- John Adams

“Politics have no relation to morals.”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”

- John Kenneth Galbraith

“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.”

- Ronald Reagan

Science

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on science:

“Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.”

- Bertrand Russell

“Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.”

- George Bernard Shaw

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”

- Charles Darwin

“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.”

- Hippocrates

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

- Isaac Asimov

“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.”

- Sir William Bragg

“New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.”

- Herbert Hoover

“However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.”

- Lewis Mumford

“I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.”

- Marie Curie

“Science is simply common sense at its best. That is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.”

- Thomas Huxley

Sports

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on sports:

“Sports do not build character. They reveal it.”

- Heywood Broun

“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

“We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.”

- Vince Lombardi

“I went to a fight last night and a hockey game broke out.”

- Rodney Dangerfield

“Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.”

- George F. Will

“You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.”

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“Winners never quit and quitters never win.”

- Vince Lombardi

“Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.”

- Anthony Starr

“The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.”

- Steve Garvey

“The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it’s the opposition.”

- Nick Seitz

Success

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on success:

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”

- Henry Ford

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

- Winston Churchill

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”

- Bill Cosby

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”

- Woody Allen

“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.”

- Benjamin Franklin

“You can do anything, but not everything.”

- David Allen

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.”

- Aristotle

“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.”

- Sven Goran Eriksson

“Opportunity is missed by most people, because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

- Thomas Edison

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

- Maya Angelou

War

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on war:

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

- Albert Einstein

“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.”

- George Patton

“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.”

- Jeannette Rankin

“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”

- Benjamin Franklin

“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless whether the mad destruction is brought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.”

- Dwight Eisenhower

“It is well that war is so terrible – otherwise we would grow too fond of it.”

- Robert E. Lee

“War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.”

- Thomas Mann

“Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers?”

- Victor Hugo

“My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.”

- George Washington

Other Quotes

While reviewing quotes there were some favorites that didn’t quite fit within the categories above, but they were still considered worth including as some of the best quotes of all time. Here are those quotes:

“That which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.”

- Friedrich Nietzche

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

- Eleanor Roosevelt

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”

- Henry Ford

“If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems.”

- Frank Wilczek

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”

- Benjamin Franklin

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”

- William Arthur Ward

“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”

- Thomas Edison

“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.”

- Voltaire

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time. But you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.”

- Abraham Lincoln

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"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"The only real valuable thing is intuition."

"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."

"I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."

"God is subtle but he is not malicious."

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."

"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."

"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."

"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."

"Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

"In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."

"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."

"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"

"No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."

"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."

"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."

"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."

"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."

"One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year."

"...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."

"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

1. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

2. Make each day your masterpiece.

John Wooden

3. Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity. Reduce selfishness, have few desires.

Lao Tzu

4. If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Vincent Van Gogh

5. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

6. Fall seven times, stand up eight!

Japanese Proverbs

7. I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune, and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key.

Charles Fletcher Lummis

8. Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

William Ellery Channing

9. The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Dolly Parton

10. No pressure, no diamonds.

Mary Case

11. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of a man is to live, not to exist.

Jack London

12. Everything you need is already inside. Just do it.

Bill Bowerman (Nike)

13. Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Theodore Roosevelt

14. Some people dream of success… while others wake up and work hard at it.

Author Unknown

15. The best dreams happen when you’re awake.

Cherie Gilderbloom

16. God, grant me the serenity to accept things that I cannot change;

The courage to change the things I can; And the wisdom to know the difference.

Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr

17. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

18. Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.

Mary Manin Morrissey

19. To change one’s life; Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.

William James

20. Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Les Brown

21. There will be sleeping enough in the Grave.

Benjamin Franklin

22. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw

23. Life is either daring adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller

24. If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page.

Mark Houlahan

25. Don’t make me walk when I want to fly.

Galina Doyla

26. A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn’t see the clouds at all – he’s walking on them.

Leonard Louis Levinson

27. Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.

Christopher Reeve

28. The best is yet to be.

Robert Browning

29. I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply all my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

Og Mandino

30. We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Henry David Thoreau

31. Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Dr. Robert Schuller

32. Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

Dr. Horace

33. Nobody ever drowned in sweat

US Marine saying

34. Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.

Vince Lombardi (one of the most successful coaches in the history of American football in his first team meeting as Packers coach)

35. Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Norman Vincent Peale

36. Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Charles Kettering

37. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Henry Ford

38. Reach up as far as you can and God will help you reach the rest of the way.

Greg Hickman

39. Never, never, never give up.

Winston Churchill ( In his later years, Winston Churchill was asked to give the commencement address at Oxford University. Following his introduction, he rose, went to the podium, and said the above 5 words. Then he took his seat.)

40. Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

41. It’s easy enough to be pleasant, when life flows along like a song, but the man worthwhile is the man with a smile, when everything goes dead wrong.

Author Unknown.

42. Everyday, give yourself a good mental shampoo.

Dr. Sara Jordan

43. Realize that true happiness lies within you.

Lucian

44. When one door of happiness closes, another opens: but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

45. If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Joan Collins

46. Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

47. Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.

Tagore

48. This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God.

Walt Whitman

49. In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

Deepak Chopra

50. If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

David Carradine

51. Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.

Mario Fernandez

52. Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Jim Rohn

53. Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don’t take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.

Sam Walton (founder of Walmart)

54. Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.

Helen Keller

55. Those who wish to sing, always find a song.

Swedish Proverb

56. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Plato

57. Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.

Helen Keller

58. Don’t count the days, make the days count.

Muhammad Ali

59. Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.

Author Unknown

60. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. You’re only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers.

Walter Hagen

61. Love all. Serve all. Help ever. Hurt never.

Author Unknown

62. Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

Buddha

63. Dance as though no one is watching you,

Love as though you have never been hurt before,

Sing as though no one can hear you,

Live as though heaven is on earth.

Souza.

64. You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Henry Drummond

65. Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Teilhard de Chardin

66. We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.

William James

67. Waste no tears over the grieves of yesterday.

Euripides

68. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.

Pablo Neruda

69. He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his God, has found the sunny side of life.

Spurgeon

70. Never think that God’s delays are God’s denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

Georges-Louis Leclere De Buffon

71. It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get back up.

Vince Lombardi

72. Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Abraham Lincoln

73. Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

74. Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Henry Van Dyke

75. When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin

76. Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Leonardo Da Vinci

77. You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.

Henry David Thoreau

78. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert F. Kennedy

79. So long as there is breath in me, that long will I persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles of success; If I persist long enough I will win.

Og Mandino

80. Success and rest don’t sleep together.

Russian proverb

81. The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.

Napoleon Hill

82. We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

Kenji Miyazawa

83. If you’re going through Hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

84. Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

Machiavelli

85. Remember the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

Ho Chi Minh

86. In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

87. When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Napoleon Hill

88. In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

89. God never sends us more than we can handle.

Mother Theresa

90. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Mary Kay Ash

91. Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.

Christian Larson

92. It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.

Henry Ward Beecher

93. The things that hurt us teach us.

Author Unknown

94. What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

95. The oyster turns into pearl the sand which annoys it.

Sidney Newton Bremer

96. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

97. Light tomorrow with today.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

98. Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

99. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

100. A year from now you may wish you had started today.

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)

“Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.”

- Henri L. Bergson

“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”

– Hellen Keller

“Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.”

- Josh Billings

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there”

- Will Rogers

“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

- Christopher Columbus

“To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.”

- St Catherine of Siena

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we took so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened up for us”

- Helen Keller

“We don’t see the things the way they are. We see things the way WE are.”

- Talmund

“Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.”

- Norman Vincent Peale

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

- Dr Wayne Dyer

“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”

- Theodore Rubin

“Pessimist : A person who says that O is the last letter of ZERO, instead of the first letter in word OPPORTUNITY.”

- Anonymous

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

- Thomas A Edison

“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting”

- Elizabeth Bibesco

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.”

- B. Olatunji

“When you get to the end of the rope, tie a knot and hang on.”

- Franklin D Roosevelt

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, determines your altitude.”

- Zig Ziglar

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”

- Winston Churchill

“The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.”

- Dennis Green

“Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”

- Muhammad Ali

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

- Dale Carnegie

“So many of our dreams at first seems impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”

- Christopher Reeve

“Hard work spotlights the character of people. Some turn up their sleeves. Some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.”

- Sam Ewing

“There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day. And those who spend an hour dreaming before setting to work to fulfill those dreams. Go into the third category because there’s virtually no competition.”

- Steven J Ross

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

- Confucious

“Many of life’s failures are people who had not realized how close they were to success when they gave up.”

- Thomas A Edison

“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”

- Stephen Covey

“Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.”

- Peter Drucker

“Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!”

- Donald Gardner

“Success is what you attract by the person you become.”

- Jim Rohn

“You have to ‘Be’ before you can ‘Do’ and ‘Do’ before you can ‘Have’.

- Zig Ziglar

“You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people to get what they want.”

- Zig Ziglar

“The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others wish to join us.”

- Hubert Humphrey

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus when the limo breaks down.”

- Oprah Winfrey

“Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune.”

- Jim Rohn

“It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.”

- Jim Rohn

“You must be the change you want to see in the world.”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“The future has several names. For the weak, it is the impossible. For the fainthearted, it is the unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is the ideal.”

- Victor Hugo

“There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.”

- Po Bronson

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

- Waldo Emerson

“Use what talents you possess, the woods will be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”

- Henry van Dyke

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

- Bertrand Russell

“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.”

- Winston Churchill

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life’s about creating yourself.”

- George Bernard Shaw

“Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vintage point.”

- Harold B Melchart

“The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.”

- Benjamin Mays

“More often in life, we end up regretting the chances in life that we had, but didn’t take them, than those chances that we took and wished we hadn’t.”

- Anonymous

“An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.”

- Pope John Paul I

“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.”

- Earl Shoaf