Great Quotes

Welcome to my great quotes page. These are the kings and queens of quotes, the ones that tower above them all.

• GREAT QUOTE OF THE PAGE
  To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children ... to leave the world a better place ... to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson


• I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
  Martin Luther King Jr


• Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
  Abraham Lincoln


• A house divided against itself cannot stand.
  Abraham Lincoln


• Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
  Thomas Edison


• And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
  Abraham Lincoln


• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson


• The unexamined life is not worth living.
  Socrates


• Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


• 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 the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
  Mark Twain


• True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
  Socrates


• Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
  Buddha


• Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
  Susan B Anthony


• Hatred can be overcome only by love
  Mahatma Gandhi


• 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

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