well known quotes

Well-Known Quotes

Find a nice collection of well-known quotes and sayings about love, life, from the Holy Bible and movies.

In this article, I have compiled the best of well-known quotes which are quite popular, and many of them give us motivation in difficult times. "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." - Henry Ford. "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." - Zig Ziglar. "You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln. "It is better to remain quiet and be thought a fool." - Abraham Lincoln. "We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it." - Abraham Lincoln. "Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them." - Albert Einstein. Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein. "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." - Albert Einstein. "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Mohandas Gandhi. "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." - Walt Disney. Love Quotes Love quotes help you sail through tough and painful tides of love. As they say, listening to what other people have got to say helps in tolerating one's endeavors, if not mend the broken heart. On the contrary, having a look at the brighter side of being in love, words of happiness or praise for one's loved one often makes you realize how lucky you are. "The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands." - Alexander Penney. "Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life." - Joseph Conrad. "Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are." - Houssaye. "Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never." - Charles Caleb Colton. "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." - Robert Frost. "Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all." - Alfred Lord Tennyson. "A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain." - Abraham Crowley. "Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge. "Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?" - Cinderella by Oscar Hammerstein II. "He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals." - Benjamin Franklin. "Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life." - Lord Byron. Quotes about Life These wise quotes will surely give you strength. "Neither have they hearts to stay, Nor wit enough to run away." - Samuel Butler. "Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed." - William James. "A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot." - William Randolph Hearst. "Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing." - William James. "... ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." - John F. Kennedy. "Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude." - Zig Ziglar. "There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear." - John Wainwright. "Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. - Winston Churchill. Under the pressure of trial and responsibility we are often stronger than when there is no pressure." - Mark Rutherford. "It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to." - Edgar Z. Friedenberg. "We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success; we often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery." - Samuel Smiles. "Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job." - Victor Hugo. Quotes from Movies "How to deal with death is at least as important as how to deal with life." - Admiral Kirk in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. "After all, tomorrow is another day!" - Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh), in Gone with the Wind. "In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns." - Fabrizio (Angelo Infanti), in The Godfather. "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse." - Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando ) in The Godfather. "The stuff that dreams are made of." - Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) in The Maltese Falcon. "Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." - Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) in Forrest Gump. "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti." - Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) in The Silence of the Lambs. "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." - Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) in The Godfather Part II. "They're here!" - Carol Anne Freeling (Heather O'Rourke) in Poltergeist. Quotes from the Bible "What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?" - Matthew 16: 26. "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." - 1 Corinthians 13:4-13. "This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it." - Psalms 118:24. "Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you." - Deuteronomy 31:6. "The appetite of the lazy craves and gets nothing, while the appetite of the diligent is richly supplied." -Proverbs 13:4. "A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother." - Proverbs 18:24. "...if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you." - Matthew 17:20. "Hope these quotes stand by your side at the time of your need. And breaking the mood, you can just go through these again for the sake of entertainment, if not enlightenment!".

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