100+ Best of All Time Quotes – Timeless Wisdom & Inspirational Sayings

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates

“Wisdom begins in wonder.” – Socrates

“With great power comes great responsibility.” – Voltaire

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” – Jimi Hendrix

“The wise man is not he who knows everything, but he who understands what he does not know.” – Confucius

“It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” – William Shakespeare

“Do not let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers

“The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.” – Swati Sharma

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.” – Kahlil Gibran

“The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.” – Claude Lévi-Strauss

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle

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

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

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

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

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

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman

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

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

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

“Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people.” – Anonymous

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

“Where there is love, there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi

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

“Love makes the world go round.” – Madonna

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

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

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

“Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day.” – Unknown

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

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

“Love is an endless act of forgiveness.” – Peter Ustinov

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

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

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

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

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.” – Albert Schweitzer

“There is no substitute for hard work.” – Thomas Edison

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

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” – Estée Lauder

“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire.” – Robert Anthony

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller

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

“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs

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

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

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

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar

“The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.” – Anonymous

“Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done.” – David Goggins

“Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.” – Anonymous

“Small steps in the right direction can turn out to be the biggest step of your life.” – Anonymous

“The only bad workout is the one that didn’t happen.” – Anonymous

“You are stronger than you think.” – Unknown

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

“Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.” – Allen Saunders

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West

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

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

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

“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll

“Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Life is not measured in years, but in the moments that take your breath away.” – Anonymous

“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.” – Unknown

“I used to play piano by ear, but now I use my hands.” – Unknown

“I'm not lazy, I'm on energy-saving mode.” – 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

“If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.” – Earl Wilson

“I’m not strange, weird, or odd. I’m just not normal.” – Unknown

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

“I put my phone in airplane mode, but it won’t take off.” – Unknown

“I’m not procrastinating. I’m just living in the moment… which I’ve been doing for three weeks.” – Unknown

“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.” – J.K. Rowling

“Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is having fear and jumping anyway.” – Taylor Swift

“Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne

“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right.” – Kofi Annan

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

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

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.” – Margaret Mitchell

“Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.” – Omar N. Bradley

“The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.” – Megan McArdle

“Sometimes we must plant seeds in winter, trusting they will bloom in spring.” – Unknown

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all the darkness.” – Desmond Tutu

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.” – Emily Dickinson

“When you lose hope, you forfeit everything.” – Mario Puzo

“Hope is the dream of a waking man.” – Aristotle

“Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.” – Suzanne Collins

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Hope is the anchor of the soul.” – Hebrews 6:19

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” – Victor Hugo

“Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.” – George Iles

“Stars can't shine without darkness.” – D.H. Sidebottom

“Hope is the power behind every great achievement in history.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” – Hal Borland

“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” – Elbert Hubbard

“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” – David Tyson

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’” – C.S. Lewis

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell

“Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.” – Unknown

“Friendship doubles your joys and halves your sorrows.” – Unknown

“The language of friendship is not words, but meanings.” – Henry David Thoreau

“A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia

“Friends are the family you choose.” – Jess C. Scott

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” – Linda Grayson

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” – Helen Keller

“A true friend is someone who accepts your past, supports your present, and encourages your future.” – Unknown