Famous Quotes

Here is my list of famous quotes that inspire me the most. You know when a quote just gives you that aha moment? That’s exactly what these quotes do for me. Enjoy

• FAMOUS QUOTE OF THE PAGE
  To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson


• We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop
  Mother Theresa


• Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don’t do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is a place that you alone can fill.
  Jacob M Braude


• Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
  Theodore Roosevelt


• I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
  Thomas Edison


• I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow
  Abraham Lincoln


• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
  Mahatma Gandhi


• Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
  Thomas Edison


• Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter won't mind.
  Dr. Seuss


• I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
  Nelson Mandela


• It always seems impossible until its done.
  Nelson Mandela


• It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
  Muhammad Ali


• Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
  Thomas Edison


• Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.
  Mahatma Gandhi


• Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
  Theodore Roosevelt

Hope you enjoyed these quotes from some well known wise figures. Take these words to heart. To your success!

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