100+ Famous Lines in History: Powerful Quotes That Shaped the World

"I have not yet begun to fight." – John Paul Jones

"Give me liberty, or give me death!" – Patrick Henry

"To be afraid is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another." – Katherine Paterson

"Fearless people are the ones who change the world." – Simon Sinek

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear." – Franklin D. 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

"The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." – Nelson Mandela

"Do one thing every day that scares you." – Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

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

"Resistance is the secret of joy." – Alice Walker

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

"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 a short absence long, and a long presence short." – Friedrich Nietzsche

"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." – Audrey Hepburn

"Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation." – Osho

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

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness." – Peter Ustinov

"We love because it’s the only true adventure." – Nikki Giovanni

"To be loved means nothing unless you love yourself first." – Lucille Ball

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"The price of greatness is responsibility." – Winston Churchill

"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be." – Rosalynn Carter

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." – John Quincy Adams

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

"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare." – Japanese Proverb

"Freedom is never given; it is won." – A. Philip Randolph

"Justice delayed is justice denied." – William E. Gladstone

"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin… People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love." – Nelson Mandela

"Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream." – Martin Luther King Jr.

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." – Theodore Parker

"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be." – Daniel J. Boorstin

"Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith." – Alexis de Tocqueville

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." – Martin Luther King Jr.

"For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing." – Edmund Burke

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference." – Elie Wiesel

"Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed." – Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Without justice, democracy is just a word." – Bryan Stevenson

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

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

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." – Confucius

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other." – Walter Elliot

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

"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." – Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up." – Mary Holloway

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

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

"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived." – Robert Jordan

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

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." – Margaret Thatcher

"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst." – William Penn

"The trouble is, you think you have time." – Buddha

"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it." – Seneca

"Your relationship with time is your relationship with life." – Dan Buettner

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." – Leo Tolstoy

"Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted." – John Lennon

"The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence." – Anonymous

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." – Norman Cousins

"Everyone dies. Not everyone truly lives." – William Wallace (attributed)

"Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many." – Anonymous

"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right." – Nelson Mandela

"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful." – Sigmund Freud

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

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

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

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

"Happiness depends upon ourselves." – Aristotle

"Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself." – Jean-Paul Sartre

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

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

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

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality." – Seneca

"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it." – Gabriel García Márquez

"Change is the only constant in life." – Heraclitus

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world." – Mahatma Gandhi

"Growth begins at the end of your comfort zone." – Neale Donald Walsch

"People don’t resist change. They resist being changed." – Peter Senge

"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." – Woodrow Wilson

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." – George Bernard Shaw

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change." – Albert Einstein

"Transformation doesn’t start with systems, it starts with people." – Tim Kotcheff

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try." – John F. Kennedy

"You must be the evolution you want to see." – Anonymous

"Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong." – Mandy Hale

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

"I am an excellent driver, but sometimes when I close my eyes I miss a car." – Steven Wright

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

"I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I'm rich." – Jerry Seinfeld

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

"The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." – Steven Wright

"I’m not lazy, I’m on energy-saving mode." – Unknown

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

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

"My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I’ve finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already." – Dave Barry

"I don’t need a personal assistant. I just need someone to do everything for me." – Tina Fey

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

"I used to be indecisive. Now I’m not sure." – Oscar Wilde (attributed)

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." – Alan Kay

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

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

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." – Albert Einstein

"Technology is best when it brings people together." – Matt Mullenweg

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

"If you can dream it, you can do it." – Walt Disney

"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be." – Kahlil Gibran

"The biggest risk is not taking any risk." – Mark Zuckerberg

"Creativity is intelligence having fun." – Albert Einstein

"Dream big. Start small. Act now." – Robin Sharma

"The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do." – Sarah Ban Breathnach