431 Quotes By Famous People About Life, Love And Success

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Quotes by famous people that will inspire you

1. “Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel

2. “I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a one size fits all standard for happiness.”  – Kanye West

3. “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” – Tony Robbins

4. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” – Aristotle

5. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu

6. “I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.” – Albert Einstein

7. “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” –  Sheryl Sandberg

8. “You get what you settle for.” – Thelma and Louise

9. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T. S. Eliot

10. “Only those who play to win. Only those who risk to win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary.” – Iveta Cherneva

Sayings and quotes by famous people on life and success

11. “I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this, and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough.” – Marissa Mayer

12. “If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.” – Dhirubhai Ambani

13. “Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

14. “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anais Nin

15. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

16. “Life is being on the wire, everything else is just waiting.” – Karl Wallenda

17. “Pearls don’t lie on the seashore. If you want one, you must dive for it.” – Chinese proverb

18. “The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” – Mark Caine

19. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

20. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

Quotes by famous people about life

21. “You can’t outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little side bets about the outcome of life. Either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don’t play at all. And if you don’t play you can’t win.” – Judith McNaught

22. “Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not.” – Deepak Chopra

23. “Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk and to act.” – André Malraux

24. “If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.” – Mario Andretti

25. “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something; your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” – Steve Jobs

26. “Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.” – Denis Waitley

27. “Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.” – Oprah Winfrey

28. “Leap and the net will appear.” – Zen Proverb

29. “Saying it is impossible to live without failing at something is impossible. Unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.” – J.K. Rowling

30. “Every man dies, but not every man really lives.” – William Wallace

Quotes from famous people on life and love

31. “I don’t think you’re human if you don’t get nervous.” – Sidney Crosby

32. “I walk slowly but never backward.” – Abraham Lincoln

33. “Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.” – Jimmy Carter

34. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd

35. “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” – Jack Canfield

36. “The universe has no restrictions. You place restrictions on the universe with your expectations.” – Deepak Chopra

37. “Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life is too short to think small.” – Tim Ferriss

38. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Maya Angelou

39. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

40. I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan

Famous sayings and quotes by famous people

41. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair

42. “Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.”― Rumi

43. “Your dreams are ballbusters; they’re not the yellow brick road.” – Kelly Cutrone

44. “Screw it, let’s do it!” – Richard Branson

45. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs

46. “When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.” – Ellen DeGeneres

47. “You can’t have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.” – Marissa Mayer

48. “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn

49. “You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.”― John Lennon

50. “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”― Paulo Coelho

Thoughtful quotes by famous people

51. “To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.” —Dorothy West

52. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth

53. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” – Abraham Lincoln

54. “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” – Nelson Mandela

55. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill

56. “I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.” – Galileo Galilei

57. “If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
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58. “Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future.” — Tony Robbins

59. “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”― Dalai Lama

60. “Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

Inspirational quotes by famous people

61. “The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.” – Elvis Presley

62. “The reality is: sometimes you lose. And you’re never too good to lose. You’re never too big to lose. You’re never too smart to lose. It happens.” – Beyonce

63. “You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.” – William J. Clinton

64. “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”― Walt Disney

65. “You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.” – Michael Phelps

67. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey

68. “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Christopher Columbus

69. Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso

70. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” – Bill Gates

71. “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.” – Muhammad Ali

72. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman

73. “I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.” – Abraham Lincoln

Quotes by famous people to inspire you to live your best life

74. “Life is short, and it is here to be lived.” – Kate Winslet

75. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison

76. “Get busy living or get busy dying.” – Stephen King

77. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

78. “Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.” – John F. Kennedy

79. “Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.” – Mark Zuckerberg

80. “I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.” – Elon Musk

81. “The Way Get Started Is To Quit Talking And Begin Doing.” – Walt Disney

Quotes by famous people to help you find the answers you’re looking for

82. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis

83. “Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.” – Voltaire

84. “It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – J.K.Rowling

85. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi

86. “It is far better to be alone than to be in bad company.” – George Washington

87. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” – Napoleon Hill

88. “Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

89. “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” – Booker T. Washington

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

91. “Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is youer than you!” –Dr. Seuss

Quotes by famous people to inspire and teach

92. “We May Encounter Many Defeats But We Must Not Be Defeated.” – Maya Angelou

93. “Don’t be so humble – you are not that great.” – Golda Meir

94. “You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.” – Albert Einstein

95. “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde

96. “The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” – Samuel Johnson

97. “You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.” – Yogi Berra

98. “What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.” – Margaret Thatcher

99. “Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.” – John Wooden

100. “Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.” – Dale Carnegie

More inspirational quotes by famous people

101. “Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” – Mother Teresa

102. “Love is a serious mental disease.” – Plato

103. “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” – Jim Morrison

104. “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

105. “The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.” – Napoleon Hill

106. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

107. “You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.” – Jason Mraz

108. “A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.” – Bob Dylan

109. “The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”
– Frank Sinatra

110. “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” – Robert Frost

Quotes by famous people about success and greatness

111. “Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.” —Wilma Rudolph

112. “To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.” —Francois de La Rochefoucauld

113. “People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.” —Edmund Hillary

114. “Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.” —Gordon B. Hinckley

115. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” —Og Mandino

116. “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” —Michael Jordan

117. “Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” —William Faulkner

118. “Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.” —William Shakespeare

119. “Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.” —Joseph B. Wirthlin

120. “Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.” —Theodore Roosevelt

Quotes by famous people to inspire and encourage you

121. “You only have one life, and if it is not going in the direction you want it to, now is the time to make changes.” – Joyce Meyer

122. “Success isn’t easy, and that’s a good thing – at least in business. If it was easy, everybody would be doing it and your competition would be outrageous!” – David Fairweather

123. “Never let your past decisions determine your future outcome.” – Mark Dudley

124. “If you want something out of life you have to go out there and get it, because it is not just going to be given to you.” – Kelvin Waites

125. “No one can give you your goals. No one can dig for you. This is your journey.” – Warren Philip Gates

126. “Having a specific meaning and purpose in your life helps to encourage you towards living a fulfilling and inspired life.” – Vic Johnson

127. “Inspiration is a message from your unconscious wisdom telling you to go out there and be the fullest, most positive expression of you who you REALLY are.” – Paul Dalton

128. “Determine what motivates you and you can find your path to love, happiness and influence and that which you seek to make your life complete.” – Louis Howard

129. “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” – Peter F Drucker

130. “Life without purpose is meaningless.” – Amy Torres

Famous quotes that are filled with life lessons

131. “Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.”― Joseph Campbell

132. “In this life, when you deny someone an apology, you will remember it at time you beg forgiveness.” – Toba Beta

133. “Short cuts make long delays.”― J.R.R. Tolkien

134. “No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can’t go all the way around.”― John Green

135. “If plan A doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters – 204 if you’re in Japan.”― Claire Cook

136. “The world is what YOU think of it, so think of it DIFFERENTLY and your life will change.”― Paul Arden

137. “Never Say Never if you know you can do what you love don’t give up.”― Justin Bieber

138. “What gets measured gets improved.”― Robin S. Sharma

139. “But one of the big lessons I have learned from my journey is you can’t please everyone, so don’t try.”― Chris Colfer

140. “Where there is life, there is hope.”― Alyson Noel

Famous people quotes that will broaden your thoughts

141. “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein

142. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” – Stephen Covey

143. “All that we are is the result of what we have thought.” – Buddha

144. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn

145. “Stay hungry, stay foolish.” – Steve Jobs

146. “In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.” – Deepak Chopra

147. “The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X

148. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” – James Cameron

149. “A great man is always willing to be little.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

150. “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt

More inspirational famous people quotes

151. “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” – Mother Teresa

152. “But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you’re afraid.” – Arianna Huffington

153. “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” – Coco Chanel

154. “Our greatest fear should not be of failure… but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” – Francis Chan

155. “The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” – Plato

156. “If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.” – Katharine Hepburn

157. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee

158. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon

159. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

160. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” – Mother Teresa

Quotes by famous people to elevate your perspective

161. “A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.” – Malcolm X

162. “If you don’t love yourself, you cannot love others.” – Dalai Lama

163. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin

164. “Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

165. “Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” – Seneca

166. “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”– Theodore Roosevelt

167. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

168. “Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.”– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

169. “Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.” – Ashton Kutcher

170. “As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” – Andrew Carnegie

Quotes by famous people to inspire and motivate

171. “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” – Marilyn Monroe

172. “God put you on this earth because He loves you and He has a plan for you.” – Nick Vujicic

173. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

174. “We should love unquenchably, dream unfalteringly, and work unceasingly.” – Max Lucado

175. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau

176. “Use what talent you possess – the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.” – Henry van Dyke

177. “Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” – Oprah Winfrey

178. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”– Lucille Ball

179. “We don’t want to tell our dreams. We want to show them.” – Cristiano Ronaldo

180. “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

Famous people quotes that will elevate your thoughts

181. “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” – Albert Einstein

182. “Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.” – George Burns

183. “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” – Sir Winston Churchill

184. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost

185. “Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.” – Pablo Picasso

186. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou

187. “Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterward to solve other problems.” – Rene Descartes

188. “You have as much laughter as you have faith.” – Martin Luther

189. “Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.” – Henry Ford

190. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

Quotes by famous people to enlighten you

191. “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” – Coco Chanel

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

193. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” – Mahatma Gandhi

194. “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” – Margaret Mead

195. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey

196. “You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

197. “It’s not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it’s who you are.” – Elvis Presley

198. “It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

199. “The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” – Tony Robbins

200. Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” – Christopher Reeve

Quotes by famous people that will make you think differently

201. “Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.” – John Ruskin

202. “It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.” ― Roy T. Bennett

203. “To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.” – Heather Cortez

204. “In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.” – Anne Frank

205. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Franklin Roosevelt

206. “Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.” – Henry Ford

207. “Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.” – Seneca

208. “Happiness doesn’t come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.” – Wilferd Peterson

209. “The heart is luminous, but it is obscured by veils that are not of its nature.” – Buddha

210. “The ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable skill you can learn.” – Napoleon Hill

Quotes by famous people to expand your mind

211. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu

212. “Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.” – Denzel Washington

213. “Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.” – Winston Churchill

214. “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” – Oscar Wilde

215. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln

216. “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” – Bruce Lee

217. “When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.” – Bill Clinton

218. “Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.” – Elvis Presley

219. “I like criticism. It makes you strong.” – LeBron James

220. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” – Søren Kierkegaard

Powerful quotes by famous people

221. “You only pass through this life once, you don’t come back for an encore.” – Elvis Presley

222. “It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”― Lewis Carroll

223. “I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter.” – Ellen DeGeneres

224. “A person’s a person, no matter how small.”― Dr. Seuss

225. “Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.” – Les Brown

226. “Whatever you are, be a good one.”― Abraham Lincoln

227. “Ability is of little account without opportunity.” – Lucille Ball

228. “If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”― Rick Riordan

229. “You put your intention and your attention on what it is that you want to shift and change.” – Wayne Dyer

230. “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” – Thomas Jefferson

Quotes by famous people to brighten your day

231. “Peace begins with a smile.” – Mother Teresa

232. “It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”― Paulo Coelho

233. “Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.” -Stephen Covey

234. “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”― Gustave Flaubert

235. “What counts can’t always be counted; what can be counted doesn’t always count.” – Albert Einstein

236. “You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”― A.A. Milne

237. “Now I look beyond what I can’t do and focus on what I CAN. “- Robert M. Hensel

238. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”― Martin Luther King Jr.

239. “Your brain is the most important organ in your body, and what happens in it determines what you think and feel, say and do.” – Rick Hanson

240. “None but ourselves can free our minds.”― Bob Marley

Quotes by famous people that will change the way you think

241. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”― Mahatma Gandhi

242. “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”― Mark Twain

243. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”― Oscar Wilde

244. “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

245. “Always do what you are afraid to do.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson

246. “Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.”― C. JoyBell C.

247. “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”― John Milton

248. “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

249. “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”― George Orwell

250. “Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.”― Rumi

More quotes by famous people

251. “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

252. “Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”― Albert Schweitzer

253. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”― Thomas A. Edison

254. “A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”― Max Lucado

255. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”― Martin Luther King Jr.

256. “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”― St. Francis Of Assisi

257. “Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”― Paulo Coelho

258. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”― Zig Ziglar

259. “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”― Roy T. Bennett

260. “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”― Rumi

261. “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.” – Charles Dickens

262. “We tend to get what we expect.” – Norman Vincent Peale

263. “Experience has been a stern but excellent teacher.” – Og Mandino

264. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou

265. “A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.” – Kahlil Gibran

266. “Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.” – Wayne Dyer

Famous Quotes by Famous People About Christianity

266. “I’m not the first person to sing about God, Jesus, faith [or] any of that, and I won’t be the last. And it won’t be the last for me, either. If you don’t like it, change the channel.” – Carrie Underwood

267. “That’s the thing about God; He’s the one in charge: not you or me,” – Sadie Robertson

268. “There’s more to me than just this jersey I wear, and that’s Christ living inside of me.” – Stephen Curry

269. “But I’ll say this: I’ve never been more honored to sing about Jesus and for Jesus. And I’ve never been more sure of the path I’ve chosen.” – Natalie Grant

270. “When God’s leading and directing, you don’t have to kick the doors open.” – Jeremy Camp

271. “The thing is, dressing up, going to church, dropping a twenty in the offering plate, those things are all well and good, but that doesn’t make you a Christian.” – Matthew West

272. “Worship: Where God isn’t moved by the quality of our voice but by the condition of our hearts.” – Chris Tomlin

273. “When the Lord opens a door, walk through it. If He doesn’t, just trust.” – Kari Jobe

274. “I guess, first and foremost, I’d like to thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.” – Tim Tebow

275. “My Christian faith is so meaningful to me, and it’s the foundation of who I am,” – Candace Cameron Bure

276. “Through Jesus, your past is explained, your present has a purpose, and your future is secure. What more could you really want in life?” – Jase Robertson

Famous people quotes that will have you pondering life

277. “Whoever is happy will make others happy too.” — Anne Frank

278. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” — Wayne Gretzky

279. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” — Aristotle

280. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

281. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” — Benjamin Franklin

282. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Nelson Mandela

283. “Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” — Steve Jobs

284. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller

285. “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” — Oprah Winfrey

286. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” — Maya Angelou

Quotes from famous people about what it is like in the limelight

287. “Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”― J.K. Rowling

288. “Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

289. “I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.” — Ray Charles

290. “Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.” — Emily Dickinson

300. “The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.” — Justin Timberlake

301. “I know I’m not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I’m famous.” — Cher

302. “Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.” — Marilyn Monroe

303. “The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.” — Britney Spears

304. “I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.” — Walt Disney

305. “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”― Rumi

Famous people quotes from movie stars

306. “I never got into this business thinking I’d be like a movie star.” — Glenn Close

307. “I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.” — Lindsay Lohan

308. “If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.” — Tom Hanks

309. “I didn’t come to Hollywood to be the girl next door. I came to be a movie star.” — Jayne Mansfield

310. “I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.” — Will Rogers

311. “I’m going to college. I don’t care if it ruins my career. I’d rather be smart than a movie star.” — Natalie Portman

312. “I’ve made $50 million over the years as a movie star, if you’ll pardon the expression, and I’ve given most of it to the bookies.” — Walter Matthau

313. “I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.” — Eliza Dushku

314. “People sometimes say, ‘Oh, you were a movie star,’ and I’m like, ‘No, I was a supporting actress.’ I wasn’t an A-list actress, and I’m fine with that. I’m proud of what I did in film.” — Zooey Deschanel

315. “What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn’t real.” — Jean-Claude Van Damme

Inspirational Quotes By Famous People To Help You Stay On Track

316. “The future depends on what you do today.” —Mahatma Gandhi

317. “We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.” – Barack Obama

318. “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”― Will Rogers

319. “To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.” – Mark Twain

320. “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra

321. “There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” – Roger Staubach

322. “It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin

323. “Success does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” – Mahatma Gandhi

324. “Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.” – John F. Kennedy

325. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”― Confucius

Thought-provoking quotes by famous people

326. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”― Mahatma Gandhi

327. “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”― Mother Teresa

328. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”― Thomas A. Edison

329. “The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”― George Washington Burnap

330. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”― Eleanor Roosevelt

331. “I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.”― Galileo Galilei

332. “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”― George Orwell, 1984

333. “Not being heard is no reason for silence.”― Victor Hugo

334. “If you want to be happy, be.”― Tolstoy Leo

335. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Short motivational quotes by famous people

336. “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”― Lou Holtz

337. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.” – Maya Angelou

338. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson

339. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

340. “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”― Henry Ford

341. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde

342. “Find people who will make you better.” ― Michelle Obama

343. “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein

344. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

345. “Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Famous Quotes By Famous People To Live By

346. “Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

347. “You’re not defined by your past; you’re prepared by it. You’re stronger, more experienced, and you have greater confidence.” — Joel Osteen

348. “Enjoy all you have while pursuing all you want.” — Jim Rohn

349. “I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back. ” — Abraham Lincoln

350. “Your attitude is either the lock on or key to your door of success.” — Denis Waitley

351. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” — Albert Einstein

352. “You’ll never achieve real success unless you like what you’re doing.” — Dale Carnegie

353. “The key to success is to develop a winning edge.” — Brian Tracy

354. “I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning.” — John McLeod

355. “I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.” ― Elbert Hubbard

Quotes by famous authors

356. “Life is tough my darling, but so are you.” – Stephanie Bennett Henry

357. “Everything is hard before it is easy.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

358. “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” – Stephen King

359. “We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in.” —Ernest Hemingway

360. “That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” – Emily Dickinson

361. “I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain.” —Sylvia Plath

362. “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” – Haruki Murakami

363. “We rise by lifting others.” —​Robert Ingersoll

364. “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” – William Shakespeare

365. “So you had a bad day. Kick it aside and be grateful for one less bad day to pass through.” ―Richelle E. Goodrich

Famous Quotes by Famous People to Get You Off Your Comfort Zone

366. “I enjoy every day, because I choose to.” ― Tony Clark

367. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.” — Mark Twain

368. “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” — Steve Jobs

369. “The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.” — John C. Maxwell

370. “You will never change what you tolerate.” — Joel Osteen

371. “In life you need either inspiration or desperation.” — Tony Robbins

372. “You shouldn’t do things differently just because they’re different. They need to be… better.” — Elon Musk

373. “Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don’t try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.” — Tony Robbins

374. By thinking about your goals every morning, many times during the day, and every night, you begin moving toward it, and bringing it toward you.” — Bob Proctor

375. “Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.” — Pablo Picasso

Famous Quotes By Famous People To Uplift Your Spirit

376. “The time is always right to do what is right.” — Martin Luther King, Jr

377. “Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.” — Jon Bon Jovi

378. “Anything’s possible if you’ve got have enough nerve.” — J.K. Rowling

379. “As you know, life is an echo; we get what we give.” ― David DeNotaris

380. “You can have it all. You just can’t have it all at once.” — Oprah Winfrey

381. “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no use being a damn fool about it.” — W.C. Fields

382. “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.” — Henry Ford

383. “Be like a duck. Calm on the surface but always paddling like the dickens underneath.” — Michael Caine

384. “Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.” — Steve Martin

385. “Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead—that’s where your future lies.” — Ann Landers

Famous Quotes By Famous People To Keep Chasing Your Dreams

386. “No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.” ― Taylor Swift

387. “We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true.” ― Katie Holmes

388.”Never worry about bad press. All that matters is if they spell your name right.” ― Kate Hudson

389. “I don’t believe in happy endings but I believe in happy journeys.” ― George Clooney

390. “You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it.” ― Denzel Washington

391. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'” ― Muhammad Ali

392. He who has the gold makes the rules.” ― Tyler Perry

393. “Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody says distract you from your goals.” ― Michelle Obama

394. “There are no regrets in life, just lessons.” ― Jennifer Aniston

395. Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams.” ― Lady Gaga

Famous Quotes by Famous People That Will Inspire and Motivate

396. “Don’t waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.” ― Joel Osteen

397. “Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.” ― Henry David Thoreau

398. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” ― Anais Nin

399. “One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” ― Benjamin Disraeli

400. “It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt

401. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” ― Mark Twain

402. “You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.” ― Deepak Chopra

403. “Build a dream and the dream will build you.” ― Robert H. Schuller

404. “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” ― Benjamin Disraeli

405. “To be successful, you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.” ― Mike Gafka

Famous Quotes by Famous People to Live a Peaceful Life

406. “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.” ― Mark Twain

407. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” ― Aristotle

408. “Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can’t get any better, it can.” ― Nicholas Sparks

409. “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” ― Ernest Hemingway

410. “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” ― Oscar Wilde

411. “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.” ― J.K. Rowling

412. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

413. “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.” ― C.S. Lewis

414. “It’s far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.” ― Marilyn Monroe

415. “Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn’t make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.” ― Nicholas Sparks

Famous Quotes by Famous People to Live in the Moment

416. “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” ― Michael Cunningham

417. “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien

418. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” ― Plato

419. “Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they make a good excuse.” ― Thomas Szasz

420. “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.” ― Albert Einstein

421. “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ― Rumi

422. “We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” ― Chuck Palahniuk

423. “Destroying things is much easier than making them.” ― Suzanne Collins

424. “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” ― Roy T. Bennett

425. “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.” ― Sylvia Plath

426. “If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.” ― Ray Kroc

427. “Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.” ― Wayne Gretzky

428. “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” ― Bill Gates

429. “The key to success is failure.” ― Michael Jordan

430. “Success is a matter of sticking to a set of common sense principles anyone can master.” ― Earl Nightingale

431. “As my knowledge of things grew I felt more and more the delight of the world I was in.” ― Helen Keller

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