Quotes are the key to the knowledge and wisdom of many great people. Find your own beacon on the road to success among our collection of inspirational quotes.
Popular quotes of the
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Dream in light years, challenge miles, walk step by step
William Shakespeare -
No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu's mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry.
Maurice Gibb Bee Gees -
There isn’t time-so brief is life-for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving-and but an instant, so to speak, for that.
Mark Twain -
If we can inspire a kid to pick up a guitar - and less and less kids are doing so these days - it'd be really cool because I know how it felt growing up and how special that was for me.
M. Shadows -
We begin to die from the moment we are born, for birth is the cause of death. The nature of decay is inherent in youth, the nature of sickness is inherent in health, in the midst of life we are verily in death.
Gautama Buddha -
The deeper I go into mythology, the more I find. I originally did five 'Percy Jackson' books. I thought that would cover Greek mythology and I couldn't have been more wrong. It's ever-expanding.
Rick Riordan
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I would categorize Die Antwoord as pop music: extreme, futuristic pop music.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
John Milton -
Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.
P. J. O'Rourke -
There's this old Frank Sinatra song: 'If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere'... that song was about New York, but it applies to America. People know that if you make it in America, you can make it anywhere, and that is both in terms of sophistication and customer satisfaction.
Anand Mahindra -
The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.
Joseph Butler -
If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.
Albert Einstein
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You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.
Albert Einstein -
When a salesperson truly cares about you, trust forms, and you're more likely to buy, come back for repeat business, and refer new customers.
Adam Grant -
I think beautiful independent films are made, and I think they're as close to what theater can be because they're not loaded with all of the extra stuff. It's human, and it's more organic, but theater is very unique... It's a different connection altogether.
Sam Underwood -
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
Janis Joplin -
Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It's not going to do me any good.
James Woods -
The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it’s going to just get more unpredictable. If you thought financial crises came and went, just count on them – another economic collapse, it’s almost going to be like not news any more. But for startups this is great, because it’s a perpetual driver of disruption.
Steve Jurvetson
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Childhood nutrition and healthy eating is a cause that is extremely close to my heart.
Marcus Samuelsson -
Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones.
Alicia Keys -
I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school There was a boy who was very attractive who was even stupider than I was. And in order to ingratiate myself with this boy who was very beautiful, I began to do his homework for him – and that's how I became smart, I had to do all this work to just keep ahead of him a little bit, in order to help him. In a sense, all the rest of my life I've been trying to do intellectual things that would attract beautiful boys.
Michel Foucault -
There would be no difficulty in securing the rights of the people and the liberties of Texas if men would march to their duty and not fly like recreants from danger. Texas must be defended and liberty maintained.
Sam Houston -
Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and men in these communities is holding back progress.
Dionne Warwick -
I am working in my office. I've got a boss who tells me what to do. He's got a boss who tells him what to do. And above him is another boss who probably is telling my boss in the same way - or my boss' boss in the same way what to do. In actuality, this is not the way things work. Management science says that that kind of a chain doesn't work more than three levels up.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky