Great Famous Sayings
Great Famous Sayings
- “No legacy is so rich as honesty.” – William Shakespeare
- “Character is what you do when no one is looking.” – Henry Huffman
- “To err is human, to forgive divine.” – Alexander Pope
- “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller
- “In every triumph there’s a lot of try.” – Frank Tyger
- “The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.” – Ray Charles
- “Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.” – Winston Churchill
“The pen is mightier than the sword.” – Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- “Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of man. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.” – Ann Eleanor Roosevelt
- “You can do anything, but not everything.” – David Allen
- “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.” – English Proverb
- “We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.” – Konrad Adenauer
- “Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.” – Lao-Tze - “My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go” – William Shakespeare
- “Nature, time and patience are three great physicians.” – H.G. Bohn
- “To measure the man measure his heart.” – Malcolm S. Forbes
- “He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.” – Arabian Proverb
- “Reconciliation is more beautiful than victory.” – Violeta Barrios de Chamorro
- “I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.” – Albert Einstein
- “Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.” – Albert Einstein
- “Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.” – James Allen
- “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou
- “The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “The time is always right to do what is right.” – Martin Luther King
- “To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.” – Abraham Maslow
- “You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it’s a little thing, do something for others – something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.” – Albert Schweitzer
- “Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.” – Franklin P. Jones
- “I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may – light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.” – John Constable
- “A half truth is a whole lie.” – Yiddish proverb
- “To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.” – W. Clement Stone
- “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- “A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness” – John Keats
- “Rather fail with honour than succeed by fraud.” – Sophocles
- “Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.” – Hugh Blair
- “Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.” – Johnny Carson
- “Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They’re what make the instrument stretch, what make you go beyond the norm.” – Cicely Tyson
- “You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.” – Maxwell Maltz
- “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.” – John F. Kennedy
- “It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore.” – Christian Bovee
- “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
- “When in doubt, tell the truth.” – Mark Twain
- “Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” – C. S. Lewis
- “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” – Blessed Mother Teresa
- “The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.” – Author Unknown
- “A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.” – John Neal
- “When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars.” – Lee Salk
- “There are no gains without pains.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein
