22 Jun 100 Famous Quotes by Famous Authors with Images
What are the most famous quotes by legendary authors? We’ve created a list of the most well-known quotes about life and love to help inspire you.
The Most Famous Quotes about Life
Life is a complex and confusing journey for most people. Here is some famous words and wisdom passed down through history.
1. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein
2. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde
3. The more we value things, the less we value ourselves.
Bruce Lee
4. The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey Hepburn
5. Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
Stephanie Klein
6. That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
Emily Dickinson
7. Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
Robert Louis Stevenson
8. Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.
9. Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
Benard Baruch
10. You will see in the world what you carry in your heart.
Creig Crippen
11. Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.
Dr. Seuss
12. It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
13. Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
Eleanor Roosevelt
14. Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
15. We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut
16. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Haruki Murakami
17. The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
18. Normality is a paved road; it’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.
19. Your past mistakes are meant to guide you, not define you.
20. Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
21. Death is not the greatest loss of life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while we live.
22. The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
23. Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality.
24. The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
25. Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Famous Quotes About Love
Finding the right words to express our emotions isn’t always easy. Here are some romantic thoughts and quotes to share with someone you love.
26. True love stories have no endings.
27. And suddenly, all the love songs were about you.
Ina
28. We were together. I forget the rest.
Walt Whitman
29. When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew.
Arrigo Boito
30. Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
Plato
31. Love is all you need.
The Beatles
32. The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
33. Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
34. If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
35. Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
36. Grief is the price we pay for love.
Queen Elizabeth II
37. You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Dr. Seuss
38. We accept the love we think we deserve.
Stephen Chbosky
39. Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare
40. One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
Paulo Coelho
41. We love the things we love for what they are.
Robert Frost
42. Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
43. What’s meant to be will always find a way.
Trisha Yearwood
44. The heart was made to be broken.
Oscar Wilde
45. For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.
Stephanie Perkins
46. I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.
Nicholas Sparks
47. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
48. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Tom Robbins
49. Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
Maya Angelou
50. Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.
A.A. Milne
Famous Inspirational Quotes
Attitude is everything, and sometimes a good thought can help motivate you throughout the day. Here are some of the most well-known positive quotes.
51. It always seems impossible until it’s done.
52. Talk to yourself like you would someone you love.
53. The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Confucius
54. Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
55. Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start being excited of what could go right.
56. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
57. The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
58. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
59. Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
60. Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Dr. Robert Schuller
61. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
Thomas A. Edison
62. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston S. Churchill
63. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart…I’ll always be with you.
A.A. Milne
64. Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
65. Nature never hurries, yet everything is accomplished
Lao Tzu
66. Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
67. Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.
68. Don’t count the days, make the days count.
69. It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
70. If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.
71. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
72. Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.
73. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Babe Ruth
74. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
75. Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
Famous Quotes about History
Learning from the past allows us to avoid repeating the same mistakes. Here are some powerful quotes about the importance of history and education.
76. Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.
Edmund Burke
77. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Rumi
78. What we do in life, echoes in eternity.
Maximus
79. History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou
80. Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Theodore Roosevelt
81. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
82. A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
Robert A. Heinlein
83. Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein
84. We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King Jr.
85. You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Galileo
Famous Quotes about Friendship
Find people who share your values and work hard to grow those relationships. Here are some notable quotes about friendship.
86. Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
87. I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than alone in the light.
88. Friends are the siblings that god never gave us.
89. A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.
Irish Proverb
90. Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
91. Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
92. Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.
93. Friends are the family you choose.
94. The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
95. We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.
96. A friend to all is a friend to none.
97. A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
98. A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
99. There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
100. Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust