100+ Best Ever Quotes of All Time – Powerful & Timeless Sayings

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." – Steve Jobs

"Believe you can and you're halfway there." – Theodore Roosevelt

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." – Confucius

"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life." – Steve Jobs

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." – Winston Churchill

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." – Eleanor Roosevelt

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." – Wayne Gretzky

"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." – Sam Levenson

"The best way out is always through." – Robert Frost

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." – Arthur Ashe

"Dream big and dare to fail." – Norman Vaughan

"Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear." – George Addair

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." – Aristotle

"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." – David Viscott

"In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours." – Maya Angelou

"Love makes our souls grow." – Victor Hugo

"If I had to choose between breathing and loving you, I would use my last breath to say 'I love you'." – Unknown

"Where there is love, there is life." – Mahatma Gandhi

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." – Lao Tzu

"Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." – Franklin P. Jones

"I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you." – Roy Croft

"A simple ‘I love you’ means more than a thousand words from others." – Unknown

"Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own." – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved." – Victor Hugo

"Know thyself." – Socrates

"The unexamined life is not worth living." – Socrates

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." – Aristotle

"Happiness depends upon ourselves." – Aristotle

"No man ever steps in the same river twice." – Heraclitus

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." – Friedrich Nietzsche

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought." – Buddha

"The mind is everything. What you think, you become." – Buddha

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." – Buddha

"Man is the measure of all things." – Protagoras

"Doubt is the origin of wisdom." – René Descartes

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." – Winston Churchill

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra." – Jimmy Johnson

"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today." – Will Rogers

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." – C.S. Lewis

"Opportunities don't happen. You create them." – Chris Grosser

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today." – Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Action is the foundational key to all success." – Pablo Picasso

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." – Henry David Thoreau

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." – Thomas Jefferson

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." – Vincent Van Gogh

"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same." – Colin R. Davis

"Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world." – Roy T. Bennett

"I'm not arguing, I'm just explaining why I'm right." – Unknown

"Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes." – Jim Carrey

"I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised." – Steven Wright

"I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I’m good at everything." – Jerry Seinfeld

"I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes—and six months later you have to do it all again." – Joan Rivers

"My phone battery lasts longer than my relationships." – Unknown

"I’m not lazy, I’m just conserving energy for future procrastination." – Unknown

"I put the ‘pro’ in procrastination." – Unknown

"I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness." – Emo Philips

"I always take life with a grain of salt… plus a slice of lemon… and a shot of tequila." – Carrie Fisher

"Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it." – Unknown

"I didn’t lose my mind. I sold it on eBay." – Unknown

"Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge." – Simon Sinek

"The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things." – Ronald Reagan

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." – John C. Maxwell

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." – Steve Jobs

"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." – Ralph Nader

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." – Warren Bennis

"People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision." – John C. Maxwell

"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus." – Martin Luther King Jr.

"The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are." – John C. Maxwell

"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes." – Peter Drucker

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you’ll be criticized anyway." – Eleanor Roosevelt

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." – Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient." – Steve Maraboli

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Turn your wounds into wisdom." – Oprah Winfrey

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life." – J.K. Rowling

"Fall seven times, stand up eight." – Japanese Proverb

"Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t." – Rikki Rogers

"The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it." – C.C. Scott

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars." – Khalil Gibran

"When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what the storm is all about." – Haruki Murakami

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body." – Seneca

"Adversity introduces a man to himself." – Albert Einstein

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." – Maya Angelou

"Creativity is intelligence having fun." – Albert Einstein

"The chief enemy of creativity is good sense." – Pablo Picasso

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." – Maya Angelou

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions." – Albert Einstein

"To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow." – Kurt Vonnegut

"Creativity takes courage." – Henri Matisse

"The creative adult is the child who survived." – Ursula K. Le Guin

"Art challenges society, and society inspires the artist." – Banksy

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." – Steve Jobs

"The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before." – Neil Gaiman

"Don’t think about making art—just make it." – Jim Whiting

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." – Pablo Picasso

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." – John Lennon

"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." – George Bernard Shaw

"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years." – Abraham Lincoln

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." – Helen Keller

"The meaning of life is to give life meaning." – Viktor E. Frankl

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." – Confucius

"Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet." – Sarah Louise Delany

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." – Oscar Wilde

"Life is not measured in years, but in the moments that take your breath away." – Unknown

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." – Mark Twain

"Life becomes easier when you delete the unnecessary." – Leo Babauta

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." – Nelson Mandela

"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends." – Albus Dumbledore (J.K. Rowling)

"Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision." – Winston Churchill

"Be brave enough to live life creatively." – Paramahansa Yogananda

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face." – Eleanor Roosevelt

"The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all." – Meg Cabot

"Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more." – Swedish Proverb

"Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen." – Brené Brown

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." – Nelson Mandela

"Fortune favors the bold." – Virgil

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." – Seneca

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." – T.S. Eliot