Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power. - Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
John Ruskin Quotes
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. - John Ruskin
Errol Flynn Quotes
The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down. - Errol Flynn
Pablo Picasso Quotes
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better. - Pablo Picasso
William Shakespeare Quotes
There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass. - William Shakespeare
Francis Bacon Quotes
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. - Francis Bacon
Emile M. Cioran Quotes
In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws. - Emile M. Cioran
Voltaire Quotes
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. - Voltaire
George Carlin Quotes
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? - George Carlin
William Feather Quotes
The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability. - William Feather
Warren Buffett Quotes
Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business. - Warren Buffett
George Carlin Quotes
The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept. - George Carlin
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Pablo Picasso Quotes
Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding? - Pablo Picasso
Michelangelo Quotes
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness. - Michelangelo
Confucius Quotes
When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself. - Confucius
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Francis Bacon Quotes
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. - Francis Bacon
Mark Twain Quotes
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. - Mark Twain
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. - Benjamin Franklin
Stephen King Quotes
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. - Stephen King
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man. - Mahatma Gandhi
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Anna Freud Quotes
Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned. - Anna Freud
Simone Weil Quotes
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. - Simone Weil
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances. - Mahatma Gandhi
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Alan Bennett Quotes
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off. - Alan Bennett
Carl Jung Quotes
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them. - Carl Jung
George Orwell Quotes
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. - George Orwell
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. - Abraham Lincoln
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate. - Henry David Thoreau
T.S. Eliot Quotes
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. - T.S. Eliot
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Charles Darwin Quotes
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. - Charles Darwin
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Mahatma Gandhi
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. - Henry David Thoreau
Denis Waitley Quotes
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience. - Denis Waitley
William Shakespeare Quotes
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. - William Shakespeare
Lewis Carroll Quotes
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. - Lewis Carroll
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts. - Mahatma Gandhi
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. - Napoleon Bonaparte
William Shakespeare Quotes
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds. - William Shakespeare
Peter Cook Quotes
I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it. - Peter Cook
Victor Hugo Quotes
The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone. - Victor Hugo
Lao Tzu Quotes
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. - Lao Tzu
Virginia Woolf Quotes
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. - Virginia Woolf
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