Famous Quotes

Quotes have always played an important role in portrayal of emotions. Be it about inspiration, success, motivation, love, fear, marriage, broken heart or any other sentiment under the sun. This post intends to supply you with some inspirational famous quotes from some of the most renowned personalities in the world. These great writers, politicians, industrialists, artists and philosophers have really made a huge effort to help the generation in understanding life and the various ups and downs of life from a different perspective. These famous quotes familiarise you with their great experiences and some essential facts about reality. These quotes from famous personalities can also serve as your guiding principles of life.

There is something magical about these famous quotes from the great minds of the world. One tends to get an electric effect from these words of wisdom and some of the famous quotes instil confidence and motivate one to make it big. While there are other eminent quotes which teach you countless lessons about reality, life and relationships. Thus inspire you to believe in yourself and have a positive outlook about things.  You can also share these famous quotes through social media sites and with your peers.

Let us go through a few famous quotes from distinguished personalities that will encourage you, teach you and familiarise you with certain realities and values.

Famous Quotes

• “If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.” – Dhirubhai Ambani
• “Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.” – H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
• “Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.” – Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
• “The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” – Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
• “For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” – Nelson Mandela
• “Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.” – Chess master Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)
• “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.” – Kurt Cobain
• “Don’t be so humble – you are not that great.” – Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat
• “His ignorance is encyclopaedic” – Abba Eban (1915-2002)
• “If a man does his best, what else is there?” – General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
• “Political correctness is tyranny with manners.” – Charlton Heston (1924-2008)
• “You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” – Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
• “When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.” – Robert Pirsig (1948-)
• “I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.” – A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)
• “People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.” – Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
• “I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it.” – Marilyn Monroe
•  “Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.” – Saint Augustine (354-430)
• “Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted.”- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
• “If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” – Michael Jordan
• “Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.” – Nelson Mandela
• “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” – Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
• “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” – Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
• “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” – Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
• “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” – Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
• “We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.” – Richard Dawkins (1941-)
• “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” – Emile Zola (1840-1902)
• “You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.” – Martin Luther