130 Most Famous Quotes of All Time

The insight and experience of successful leaders and entrepreneurs are valuable sources of inspiration and motivation. Many of these successful people have shared their life experience and wisdom through short quotes that are meaningful and inspirational. We have curated most famous quotes of all time in this post.

Famous Quotes

1. “Work hard, do your best and leave on god to do the rest.” ~ Invajy

2. “Failing to fail will never give you the real joy and happiness of success” ~ Invajy

3. “Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.”~ Buddha

4. “Try to understand paradoxical unity or duality of life. There is no meaning of “Success”; if “failure” does not exist.” ~ Invajy

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

6. “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” ~ Invajy
7. “When you reach at the peak of success and you have no one to celebrate along with, such success has not value.” ~ Invajy
8. “Failure expands your learning curve required for success.” ~ Invajy
9. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” ~ Aristotle
10. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” ~ John Lennon

Famous Quotes of All Time

11. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” ~ Helen Keller
12. “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. “Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a constant attitude.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
14. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
15. “Whoever is happy will make others happy too.” ~ Anne Frank
16. “There is no other spiritual teacher than your own soul.” ~ Swami Vivekananda
17. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
19. “Work is doing it. Discipline is doing it every day. Diligence is doing it well every day.” ~ Dave Ramsey
20. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotes by Famous People

21. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” ~ Anne Frank
22. “An unexamined life is not worth living.” ~ Socrates
23. “In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.” ~ Mother Teresa
24. “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” ~ Albert Einstein
25. “Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad Company.” ~ George Washington

26. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” ~ Dalai Lama
27. “Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” ~ Hans Christian Andersen
28. “Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.” ~ John Wooden
29. “Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.” ~ D. H. Lawrence
30. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” ~ Dr. Seuss

Famous Quotes about life

31. “You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” ~ Maya Angelou
32. “Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” ~ Marilyn Monroe
33. “Life is a long lesson in humility.” ~ James M. Barrie
34. “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” ~ Tony Robbins
35. “Never feel regret for your own decisions. If, you will not respect your own decisions, who else will?” ~ Invajy

36. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” ~ Robert Frost
37. “Love the life you live. Live the life you love.” ~ Bob Marley
38. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” ~ Helen Keller
39. “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” ~ Babe Ruth
40. “Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” ~ Oscar Wilde

Famous Quotes

41. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
42. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” ~ Herman Melville
43. “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” ~ Jim Rohn
44. “We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” ~ William Shakespeare
45. “Never regret whatever happen in life , good things give you happiness and bad things give you learning… ” ~ Invajy

46. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” ~ Nelson Mandela
47. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” ~ Confucius
48. “May you live all the days of your life.” ~ Jonathan Swift
49. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” ~ Colin R. Davis
50. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life and be without flavor.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspiring Famous Quotes

51. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
52. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” ~ Steve Jobs
53. “Life is trying things to see if they work.” ~ Ray Bradbury
54. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
55. “Achievements of today are the stepping stones for the future ones.” ~ Invajy

56. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” ~ Colin Powell
57. “Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.” ~ Charles Dickens
58. “The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.” ~ Barack Obama
59. “I failed my way to success.” ~ Thomas Edison
60. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” ~ James Cameron

Famous Quotes

61. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” ~ Les Brown
62. “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” ~ Rosa Parks
63. “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
64. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” ~ Florence Nightingale
65. “I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.” ~ Rumi

66. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” ~ Steve Jobs
67. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” ~ David Brinkley
68. “We’re either getting better or we’re getting worse.” ~ David Goggins
69. “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” ~ John Wooden
70. “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” ~ Sheryl Sandberg

Popular Quotes

71. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
72. “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” ~ Estee Lauder
73. “Whatever your goal is, you will never succeed unless you let go of your fears and fly.” ~ Richard Branson
74. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit.” ~ Conrad Hilton
75. “I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.” ~ Taylor Swift

76. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” ~ Albert Einstein
77. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” ~ John D. Rockefeller
78. “It’s worth remembering that it is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.” ~ Queen Elizabeth II
79. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
80. “If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.” ~ Thomas J. Watson

Inspirational Quotes by Famous People

81. “If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient.” ~ Gurbaksh Chahal
82. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!’“ ~ Audrey Hepburn
83. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ~ Confucius
84. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” ~ Vidal Sassoon
85. “We are not victims of our situation. We are the architects of it.” ~ Simon Sinek

86. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” ~ Jim Rohn
87. “Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems.” ~ Sun Tzu
88. “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” ~ John D. Rockefeller Jr.
89. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
90. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” ~ Winston Churchill

Famous Quotes

91. “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
92. “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” ~ Gloria Steinem
93. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” ~ Napoleon Hill
94. “Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.” ~ Drake
95. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ~ Winston Churchill
96. “You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
97. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” ~ Walt Disney
98. “Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.” ~ Zig Ziglar
99. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
100. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes of All Time

101. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” ~ Henry Ford
102. “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” ~ Vincent van Gogh
103. “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
104. “You become what you believe.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
105. “At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.” ~ Frida Kahlo

106. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” ~ Amelia Earhart
107. “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” ~ Alexander Graham Bell
108. “People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” ~ Tony Robbins
109. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” ~ George Addair
110. “Dream big and dare to fail.” ~ Norman Vaughan

Most Famous Quotes

111. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” ~ Beverly Sills
112. “Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” ~ Charles Swindoll
113. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” ~ Mother Teresa
114. “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
115. “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” ~ Margaret Mead
116. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” ~ Ayn Rand
117. “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” ~ Vince Lombardi
118. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” ~ Henry Ford
119. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” ~ Wayne Gretzky
120. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” ~ Mother Teresa

Famous Life Quotes

121. “Sight is what you see with your eyes, vision is what you see with your mind.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki
122. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
123. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
124. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
125. “First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.” ~ Aristotle
126. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.” ~ Mark Twain
127. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” ~ John Quincy Adams
128. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” ~ Maya Angelou
129. “The road to success is always under construction.” ~ Lily Tomlin
130. “You’ve got to be in it to win it.” ~ Tony Robbins

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