Famous Quotes
 What
makes someone or something famous? Was it
something they said?
On this Famous Quotes page, you can find quotations in the
below categories:
- Famous Quotes from Movies
Famous Quotes by Famous
People
"A
child miseducated is a child lost."- John F.
Kennedy
"Experience:
that most brutal of teachers. But you
learn, my God do you learn." - C. S. Lewis
"And
so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your
country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."-
John F. Kennedy
"I
have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation
where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the
content of their character." - Martin Luther
King, Jr.
"A
person who won't read has no advantage over one
who can't read."- Mark Twain
"A
man who views the world the same at fifty as he
did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."-
Muhammad
Ali
"Nothing
in all the world is more dangerous than
sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."- Martin
Luther
King, Jr.
"Even
the rich are hungry for love, for being
cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own."-
Mother Teresa
"The
real glory is being knocked to your knees and
then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it."-
Vince Lombardi
"A
good head and a good heart are always a
formidable combination."- Nelson Mandela
"I've
learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what
you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
- Maya Angelou
Famous Quotes - Motivational
"Look at a day when you are supremely
satisfied at the end. It's not a
day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had
everything to do and you've done it!"- Margaret
Thatcher
"I
have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself
act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared."-
Theodore Roosevelt
"Learn
how to be happy with what you have while
you pursue all that you want."- Jim Rohn
"The
seed you sow today will not produce crop till tomorrow. For this
reason, your identity does not lie in your current results. This is not
who you are. Your current results are who you were." -
James
A. Ray
"Dare
to live the life you have dreamed for
yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true."-
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
"You
see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually
do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action."-
Anthony Robbins
More Famous Quotes
"A
man is what he thinks about all day long."-
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Leaders
are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the
price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile."
- Vince Lombardi
"Don't
go around saying the world owes you a
living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
- Mark
Twain
"Every
book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests,
and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all
his ancestors."- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The
miracle is not that we do this work, but that
we are happy to do it." - Mother Teresa
"Fear
defeats more people than any other one thing
in the world." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Any
book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one
of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him." -
Maya
Angelou
"A
question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or
are the others crazy? "- Albert Einstein
"You
can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book
long enough to suit me."- C. S. Lewis
"Any
intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a
touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite
direction."- Albert Einstein
"It's
the repetition of
affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep
conviction, things begin to happen." - Muhammad Ali
"If
man could be crossed with the cat, it would
improve man but deteriorate the cat." - Mark
Twain
"I
learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over
it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who
conquers that fear."- Nelson Mandela
"Any
man who can drive safely while kissing a
pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."-
Albert Einstein
Famous Quotes from Movies
"Find a
truly original idea. It is the only way I will ever distinguish
myself. It is the only way I will ever matter."
From the movie
A BEAUTIFUL MIND (2001)
"Here's
looking at you, kid." From the
movie CASABLANCA (1942)
"I'll
have what she's having." From the
movie WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (1989)
"Mama
always said life was like a box of
chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."
From the
movie FORREST GUMP (1994)
"Remember
George, No man is a failure who has
friends. ... You see, George, you really have had a wonderful life."
From the movie IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)
Famous Quotes - Sports
"I'll be
floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee."-
Muhammad Ali
"I'm
tired of hearing about money, money, money,
money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok."-
Shaquille O'Neal
"I've
missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games.
26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I
succeed."- Michael Jordan
"We
didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."-
Vince Lombardi
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