The All Time Greatest Quotes

For many years I have collected quotes of a great variety of topics.

Sometimes I would refer to them to get motivated and inspired, sometimes to laugh or just to think about life.

Today I decided to share with you my favorite quotes. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

If after reading all of them you would like to share your favorite quote, please leave a comment and share it with us.

QUOTES

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
-Mark Twain

"Bring the past only if you are going to build from it."
-Doménico Cieri Estrada

"I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened."
-Mark Twain

"Time flies. It is up to you to be the navigator."
-Robert Orben

"You always pass failure on the way to success."
-Mickey Rooney

"Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense."
-Josh Billings

"Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives."
-Randy K. Milholland

"We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough."
-Helen Keller

"Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny."
-Kin Hubbard

"The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor."
-John Allen Paulos

"It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are."
-Roy Disney

"From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own." -Syrus

"Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time." 
-Arnold Glascow

"Happiness is a direction, not a place." 
-Sydney J. Harris

"Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more, and all good things will be yours." 
-Swedish Proverb

"It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark." 
-Howard Ruff

"Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us fill it with things that move us toward progress and peace." 
-Ronald Reagan

"I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish." 
-Matha Stewart

"Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth." 
-Mary Schmich

"Failing to plan is planning to fail." 
-Effie Jones

"The future never just happened. I was created."
-Will and Ariel Durant

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre."
-Gail Godwin

"What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you."
-Seneca

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-Albert Einstein

"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success."
-Ross Perot

"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."
-Dr. Laura Schlessinger

"Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan."
-Norman Vincent Peale

"What creates despair is the imagination, which ... Insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand."
-Andre Dubus

"The greatest secret of success in life is for a person to be ready when their opportunity comes."
-Benjamin Disraeli

"I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle."
-E E Cummings

"Power is the ability to do good things for others."
-Brooke Astor

"Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands ... You choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny."
-Carl Schurz

"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?"
-Brian Tracy

"If you miss love, you miss life."
-Leo Buscaglia

"You have to see opportunity before you can seize it."
-Greg Hickman

"Know yourself and you will win all battles."
-Sun Tzu

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
-Albert Einstein

"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open."
-Thomas Dewar

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."
-Confucius

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
-Robert F Kennedy

"Sometimes I get the feeling that the two biggest problems in America today are making ends meet and making meetings end." 
-Robert Orben

"To be prepared is half the victory." 
-Miguel De Cervantes

"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work." 
-Thomas J Watson

"In 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked." 
-Mary Schmich

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
-Mark Twain

"If you've ever dropped loose change into a piggy bank, you were probably astonished to find how quickly those coins added up to real money. Think of time the same way. Each of us has small "coins" of time we spend waiting each day: for the elevator, at the doctor's office, in the bank line. You will be amazed to learn how much free time you can buy with this "small change" of time." 
-Stephanie Winston

And this is the my favorite one:

"If you can dream it, you can do it."
-Walt Disney

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