10,000 Famous Quotes from the World's Greatest Authors

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

When you speak of the wolf, you see its tail.

Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.

The more you care, the stronger you can be.

To Be Perfectly Happy It Does Not Suffice To Possess Happiness, It Is Necessary To Have Deserved It.

Decide just how much anxiety a thing may be worth and refuse to give it more.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.

Don't search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present.

The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that's not the aim of boats.

Knowledge is like the branches of a tree; wisdom is the root.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

Courage is contagious.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

In a republic, this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy.

A bird that flies off the earth and lands on an anthill is still on the ground.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives, of approving of some and disapproving of others.

The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer.

I trust what I see through my glass more than what I read in books.

On the seventh of January I saw three stars near Jupiter.

Land or sea, I kept moving forward.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

If you don't program yourself, life will program you!

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

I followed the North Star, and it led me to freedom.

If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right?

They are eloquent who can speak of low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

If you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy.

When the mind is free of concepts, the world appears as it is.

Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

War is ninety percent information.

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

To Give Victory To The Right, Not Bloody Bullets, But Peaceful Ballots Only, Are Necessary.

The face is the mirror of the soul.

Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place for all...