Top-50-Quotes

 Here are 50 powerful and thought-provoking quotes.

1. "The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
   – Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Address, 2005

2. "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
   – Robert Frost, The Poetry of Robert Frost (1964)

3. "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
   – Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

4. "You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
   – Mahatma Gandhi, The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (1930)

5. "To be, or not to be, that is the question."
   – William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600)

6. "It is not length of life, but depth of life."
   – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims (1876)

7. "I think, therefore I am."
   – René Descartes, Discourse on the Method (1637)

8. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
   – Franklin D. Roosevelt, Inaugural Address (1933)

9. "That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
   – Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols (1889)

10. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
    – Winston Churchill, Speech at the University of Bristol (1941)

11. "Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions."
    – Dalai Lama, The Art of Happiness (1998)

12. "The unexamined life is not worth living."
    – Socrates, Apology (399 BC)

13. "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
    – John Lennon, Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) (1980)

14. "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
    – Wayne Gretzky, Quoted by Wayne Gretzky (1983)

15. "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
    – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance (1841)

16. "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."
    – David Viscott, The Language of Love (1987)

17. "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
    – Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1903)

18. "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
    – Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life (1900)

19. "The best way to predict the future is to create it."
    – Abraham Lincoln, Speech at Springfield (1859)

20. "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."
    – Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1857)

21. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
    – Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (340 BC)

22. "Everything you can imagine is real."
    – Pablo Picasso, Quoted by Picasso (1960s)

23. "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
    – Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)

24. "The only way to have a friend is to be one."
    – Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841)

25. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
    – Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963)

26. "It always seems impossible until it's done."
    – Nelson Mandela, Speech (1994)

27. "You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
    – Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living (1960)

28. "The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."
    – Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (6th century BC)

29. "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
    – Zig Ziglar, See You at the Top (1975)

30. "We do not remember days, we remember moments."
    – Cesare Pavese, The Moon and the Bonfires (1950)

31. "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
    – Confucius, The Analects (circa 475 BC)

32. "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
    – Helen Keller, The Story of My Life (1903)

33. "I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."
    – Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989)

34. "Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking."
    – William Butler Yeats, A Vision (1925)

35. "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
    – Beverly Sills, Quoted by Beverly Sills (1980s)

36. "Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."
    – Sam Levenson, You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What (1963)

37. "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
    – Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (6th century BC)

38. "Believe you can and you're halfway there."
    – Theodore Roosevelt, Speech at the Madison Square Garden (1901)

39. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
    – Eleanor Roosevelt, The Promised Land (1937)

40. "Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you."
    – Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1855)

41. "What we think, we become."
    – Buddha, Dhammapada (3rd century BC)

42. "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
    – Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom (1994)

43. "The mind is everything. What you think you become."
    – Buddha, Dhammapada (3rd century BC)

44. "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
    – Mae West, Quoted by Mae West (1930s)

45. "You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."
    – Christopher Columbus, Quoted by Christopher Columbus (1492)

46. "Don't count the days, make the days count."
    – Muhammad Ali, Quoted by Muhammad Ali (1970s)

47. "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."
    – Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Address, 2005

48. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today."
    – Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech (1939)

49. "Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it."
    – Charles R. Swindoll, The Grace Awakening (1990)

50. "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
    – C.S. Lewis, Quoted by C.S. Lewis (1950s)