200+ All Time Best Quotes by Famous Authors

• A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

– ROBERT FROST

• A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

– VICTOR HUGO

• A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

– AGATHA CHRISTIE

• A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.

– MAHATMA GANDHI

• A people that elect corrupt politicians, impostors, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices.

– GEORGE ORWELL

• A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

– OSCAR WILDE

• A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.

– J.R.R.TOLKIEN

• A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.

 – MAHATMA GANDHI

• A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

–  ABERJHANI

• Achievable goals are the first step to self-improvement.

– J.K.ROWLING

• Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

– MARK TWAIN

• Aim High! Reach High! Never design your character like a garden where anyone can walk.  Design it like the sky where everyone aspires to reach. Aim high! The future you see is the person you will be.

– JIM CATHCART

• All compromise is based on giving and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is surrender. For it is all given and no take.

– MAHATMA GANDHI

• All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.

– MITCH ALBOM

• All that glitters is not gold. 

– WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

• All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong. does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

– J.R.R. TOLKIEN

• All the world‘s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts.

– WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

• All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.

– ISAAC ASIMOV

• Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

– OSCAR WILDE

• An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

– OSCAR WILDE

• An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.

– SAMUEL JOHNSON

• An unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

– W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

• And when all the wars are over a butterfly will still be beautiful.

– RUSKIN BOND

• Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.

– OSCAR WILDE

• As a writer, you should not judge.  You should understand.

– ERNEST HEMINGWAY

• Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.

– CHARLES DICKENS

• Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

– BOOKER T.WASHINGTON

• Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still, she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

– OSCAR WILDE

• Be like a lotus. Let the beauty of your heart speak. Be grateful to the mud, water, air and the light.

– AMIT RAY

• Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

– WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

• Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

– OSCAR WILDE

• Before God trusts you with success, you have to prove yourself humble enough to handle the big prize.                                                                                                                                                                                        – Dr A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM

• Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

– MAHATMA GANDHI

• Between men and women, there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

– OSCAR WILDE

• By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

– RABINDRANATH TAGORE

• Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words.  Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions.  Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits, for they shall become your values.  Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.

– MAHATMA GANDHI

• Challenges make life interesting; however, overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

– MARK TWAIN

• Chess … a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time. – GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add colour to my sunset sky.

– RABINDRANATH TAGORE

• Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

– MARK TWAIN

• Courage is about doing what you are afraid to do. The one who feels no fear is a fool and the one who lets fear rule him is indeed a coward.  We must have the courage to act instead of reacting.

– Dr A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM

• Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

– WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

• Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

– CHARLES DICKENS

• Deceiving others; that is what the world calls a romance.

– OSCAR WILDE

• Determination is the power that sees us through all our frustrations and obstacles.  It helps in building our willpower which is the very basis of success.

– Dr A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM

• Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you to realize your hidden potential and power.  Let difficulties know that you too are difficult.

– Dr A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM

• Do not go where the pay may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

– RALPH WALDO EMERSON

• Do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

– MARK TWAIN

• Don’t feel bad if people remember you only when they need you.  Feel privileged that you are like a candle that comes to their mind when there is darkness.

– Dr A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM

• Don’t take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.

– Dr A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM

• Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

– Dr SEUSS

• Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

– C.S. LEWIS

• Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

– JOHN RUSKIN

• Dream, dream, dream … dreams transform into thoughts and thoughts result in action.

– Dr A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM

• Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don’t take yourself so seriously.

– NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

• Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.

– MAHATMA GANDHI

• Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

– NAPOLEON HILL

• Even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.

–  STEPHEN CHBOSKY

• Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

– LEO TOLSTOY

• Fairy tales are more than true not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

– NEIL GAIMAN

• Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

– RABINDRANATH TAGORE

• Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

– BERTRAND RUSSELL

• Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

– MAHATMA GANDHI

• Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought that no one but myself.

– C.S. LEWIS

• God has not promised Skies always blue, Flower-strewn pathways all our lives through; God has not promised Sun without rain, Joy without sorrow, Peace without pain.

– Dr A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM

• Good judgment is the result of experience and experiences the result of bad judgment.

– MARK TWAIN

• Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

– SAMUEL JOHNSON

• Human moments are brief, value them when they happen.

– STEVEN CUOCO

• I always feel happy, you know why? Because I don’t expect anything from anyone, expectations always hurt. Life is short, so live your life, be happy and keep smiling.

–  WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

• I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.

–  AUDRE LORDE

• I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

– BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

• I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.

– OSCAR WILDE

• I think to elope is cowardly. It’s running away from danger.

– OSCAR WILDE

• I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

– STEPHEN KING

• 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

• If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.

– ISAAC ASIMOV

• If an egg is broken by an outside force, Life Ends.  If broken by an inside force Life Begins.  Great things always begin from inside.

– Dr A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM

• If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

– OSCAR WILDE

• If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.

– CHARLES DICKENS

• If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

– MAYA ANGELOU

• If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

– J.K.ROWLING

• In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

– OSCAR WILDE

• It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

– OSCAR WILDE

• It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

– André Gide

• It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

– FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

• It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one’s back that is absolutely and entirely true.

– OSCAR WILDE

• It is very unfair to judge any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

– JANE AUSTEN

• It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

– OSCAR WILDE

• Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favour of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

– OSCAR WILDE

• It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

– CHUCK PALAHNIUK

• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

– MARK TWAIN

• Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your Words.  Keep your words positive because your words become your Behavior.  Keep your Behavior positive because your Behavior becomes your Habit.  Keep your habits positive because your habits become your Values.  Keep your Values positive because your Values become your Destiny.

– MAHATMA GANDHI

• Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.

– MAHATMA GANDHI

• Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.

– WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

• Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

– RABINDRANATH TAGORE

• Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

– GEORGE ELIOT