Category: Famous Quote Topic

Most Popular Famous Quote Topics

Josiah Quincy

“When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.”

Tove Jansson

“You can’t ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.”

Captain J. A. Hadfield

“This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy …

Daniel Considine

“To get the best out of a man go to what is best in him.”

Daniel H. Burnham

“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood…Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.”

Phil Jackson

“Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I’m doing.”

Norman Podhoretz

“Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on …

John Herschel

“Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.”

Dr. Rob Gilbert

“It’s all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.”

Amy Tan

“You see what power is – holding someone else’s fear in your hand and showing it to them!”

James Oppenheim

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”

Christiane Northrup, M.D.

“Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your …

Norah Jones

“If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won’t matter.”

John Mitchell Mason

“Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.”

Sir George Savile

“In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, …

Trieu Thi Trinh

“My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself…”

Ruth Stout

“Working in the garden…gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.”

John Sheffield

“‘Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.”

King Whitney Jr.

“Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To …

Joseph Rickaby

“A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, …

Rose Cherin

“Heirlooms we don’t have in our family. But stories we’ve got.”

Isak Dineson

“Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.”

Marian Evans

“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.”

Edwin Arnold

“Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads/Let love through good deeds show.”

Julius Rosenwald

“Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.”

Minor White

“No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.”

Burnadette Devlin

“To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.”

Rod Steiger

“The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.”

Phyllis Theroux

“To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.”

Brian Eno

“I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental …

Joseph Farrell

“If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.”

Wally ‘Famous’ Amos

“Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.”

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.”

Maxims of Ptahhotep

“Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.”

William Langland

“There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.”