Selected Famous Quotes

 In this post, you'll find the best quotes, from nearly a decade after they were collected. They range from deep, stimulating, to interesting, to just plain funny.

Wisdom Quotes

1. You can do anything, but not everything. —David Allen

2. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

3. The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least. —Unknown Author

4. You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. —Wayne Gretzky

5. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. —Ambrose Redmoon

6. You must be the change you wish to see in the world. —Gandhi

7. When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean. —Lin-Chi

8. The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. —A. A. Milne

9. To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. —Abraham Maslow

10. We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. —Aristotle

11. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. —Baltasar Gracian

12. Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. —Basho

14. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. —Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

15. What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. —John Ruskin

16. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes. —Marcel Proust

17. Work like you don’t need money, love as you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching —Unknown Author

18. Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not. —Virgil Garnett Thomson

19. Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. —Will Rogers

20. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. —Zig Ziglar

Funny Quotes

21. Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. —John Wilmot

22. What the world needs are more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left. —Oscar Levant

23. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. —Oscar Wilde

24. I’ve gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller’s parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her. —New York City detective

25. When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.—Norm Crosby

26. Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. —Kurt Vonnegut

27. Just the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. —Carl Sagan

28. My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. —Jean Rostand

29. Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.—Lily Tomlin

30. I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back. —Richard Lewis

31. We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. —Robert Wilensky

32. If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?—Scott Adams

33. If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us. —Anon

34. When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it. —Clarence Darrow

35. Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it. —Cullen Hightower