Here are the Top 100 famous quotes of all time by some of the greatest leaders and thinkers of their time, engaging the mind and soul with classic quotations featuring authors from the ages, with wit, wisdom, and words that inspire. Having said that, quotes are only useful if it is understood with an open mind, rather than sharing it blindly on Facebook, make a checklist of quotes you want to follow through and come back in a year’s time to the list, for those that you missed, double the effort in achieving it.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. – Oscar Wilde
It is during their darkest moments that they must focus to see the light. – Aristotle
Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. – Maya Angelou
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. – Joseph Campbell
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’! – Audrey Hepburn
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert Louis Stevenson
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. – Buddha
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. – Edmund Burke
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Where there is love there is life. – Mahatma Gandhi
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill
Do all things with love. – Og Mandino
Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. – Albert Camus
Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you. – Loretta Young
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. – Robert Frost
Change your thoughts and you change your world. – Norman Vincent Peale
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. – Nelson Mandela
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! – Dr. Seuss
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. – William Arthur Ward
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. – Democritus
Believe you can and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’ – Martin Luther King, Jr
As they express their gratitude, they must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. – John F. Kennedy
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. – A. A. Milne
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. – Judy Garland
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. – Ingrid Bergman
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. – Socrates
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. – Soren Kierkegaard
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them. – Desmond Tutu
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness. – Euripides
A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world. – Leo Buscaglia
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. – Henry David Thoreau
We know what they are, but know not what they may be. – William Shakespeare
All their dreams can come true, if they have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney
We love life, not because they are used to living but because they are used to loving. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. – Mother Teresa
What they achieve inwardly will change outer reality. – Plutarch
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. – Robert H. Schuller
When they are no longer able to change a situation – they are challenged to change ourselves. – Viktor E. Frankl
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. – John Quincy Adams
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. – Plato
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. – Margaret Mead
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make their souls blossom. – Marcel Proust
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Mark Twain
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. – Milton Berle
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. – George Sand
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. – Marcus Aurelius
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. – John C. Maxwell
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. – Thomas Aquinas
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. – Benjamin Franklin
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas A. Edison
Whoever is happy will make others happy too. – Anne Frank
Not all those who wander are lost. – J. R. R. Tolkien
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay. – Simone de Beauvoir
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. – Henry Ford
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. – Voltaire
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. – Samuel Beckett
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. – Edith Wharton
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. – Jesus Christ
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. – Lao Tzu
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. – Thomas Jefferson
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. – Aldous Huxley
You can’t blame gravity for falling in love. – Albert Einstein
Love has no age, no limit; and no death. – John Galsworthy
Happiness can exist only in acceptance. – George Orwell
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. – Sigmund Freud
Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you. – Walt Whitman
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. – Sun Tzu
Independence is happiness. – Susan B. Anthony
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. – Thomas Carlyle
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. – Napoleon Hill
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. – George Washington
Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching. – Satchel Paige
Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. – Karl A. Menninger
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. – Aesop
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. – Khalil Gibran
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. – William Blake
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. – Will Rogers
The only journey is the one within. – Rainer Maria Rilke
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. – Francis of Assisi
All that they see or seem is but a dream within a dream. – Edgar Allan Poe
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. – Jane Austen
Learning never exhausts the mind. – Leonardo da Vinci
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. – Henry James
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. – Niccolo Machiavelli
Let us sacrifice their today so that their children can have a better tomorrow. – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. – Indira Gandhi
There is nothing permanent except change. – Heraclitus
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. – Ernest Hemingway
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. – John Keats
