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Famous Motivational and Inspirational Quotes
A wide collection of quotes, quotations and wise sayings from famous business leaders, politicians, writers, and notable people around the world to spice up your blogs, MySpace, reports and presentations.
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Beauty - Grace Quotes - Emerson
2007-10-09 12:01:00
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 82) U.S. essayist, poet, and orator ...
 
Opinions Quotes - William Blake
2007-10-09 11:58:00
“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.” William Blake (1757 – 1827) English poet and painter ...
 
Imagination Quotes - Simone Weil
2007-10-09 11:52:00
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.” Simone Weil (1909 – 43) French philosopher and mystic ...
 
Innovation Quotes - Peter Bonfield
2007-10-09 11:48:00
“Doing the things we do now and doing them better, cheaper and faster will take us so far. But it will not take us far enough. We're going to have to do new things in new ways.” Peter Bonfield (b. 1944) British C.E.O. of British Telecom ...
 
Leadership Quotes - Gail Sheehy
2007-10-09 11:46:00
“The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.” Gail Sheehy (b. 1937) U.S. writer and lecturer ...
 
Character Quotes - Edward Wilmot Blyden
2007-10-09 11:43:00
“If you are not yourself, if you surrender your personality, you have nothing left to give the world. You have no pleasure, no use, nothing which will attract and charm me, for by the suppression of your individuality, you lose your distinctive character.” Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832 – 1912)... ...
 
Worry - Money Quotes - Tillie Olsen
2007-10-09 11:39:00
“Better mankind born without mouths and stomachs than always to worry about money to buy, to shop, to fix, to cook, to wash, to clean.” Tillie Olsen (1913 - 2007) U.S. writer ...
 
Power - Love Quotes - Martin Luther King
2007-10-09 11:36:00
Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.” Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 – 68) U.S. civil rights leader and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize ...
 
Humor - Fools Quotes - Florence King
2007-10-09 11:34:00
“I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer.” Florence King (b. 1936) U.S. novelist and columnist ...
 
Experience Quotes - Lyman Bryson
2007-10-09 11:29:00
“The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe that experience is a substitute for intelligence.” Lyman Bryson (1888 – 1959) U.S. educator ...
 
Babies - Politics Quotes - WS Gilbert
2007-10-07 10:37:00
“I often think it's comical How Nature always does contrive That every boy and every gal That's born into the world alive Is either a little Liberal Or else a little Conservative!” W. S. Gilbert (1836 – 1911) British dramatist and librettist ...
 
Self Praise Quotes - Samuel Butler
2007-10-07 10:33:00
“The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.” Samuel Butler (1835 – 1902) British writer ...
 
Long Life Quotes - Jonathan Swift
2007-10-07 10:32:00
“Every man desires to live long but no man would be old.” Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745) Irish writer and satirist ...
 
Funny Dreams Quotes - Max Beerbohm
2007-10-07 10:28:00
“Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.” Max Beerbohm (1872 – 1956) English writer ...
 
Funny Quotes - Mistress - James Goldsmith
2007-10-07 10:22:00
“When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy.” James Goldsmith (1933 – 97) British entrepreneur and politician ...
 
Woman Quotes - Oscar Wilde
2007-10-07 10:18:00
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.” Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) Irish playwright, novelist, and poet ...
 
Letter Writing Quotes - Evelyn Waugh
2007-10-07 10:15:00
“Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someone thanked him for a wedding present, he thanked them for thanking him and there was no end to the exchange but death.” Evelyn Waugh (1903 – 66) British satirist and novelist ...
 
Government Quotes - Charles Frankel
2007-10-07 10:14:00
“Whatever happens in government could have happened differently, and it usually would have been better if it had.” Charles Frankel (1917 – 79) U.S. philosopher ...
 
Funny Food Quotes - Laurence Peter
2007-10-07 10:10:00
“The noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.” Laurence J. Peter (1919 – 90) Canadian educator and writer ...
 
Human Race Quotes - GK Chesterton
2007-10-07 10:07:00
“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.” G. K. Chesterton (1874 – 1936) British novelist and journalist ...
 
Funny Hope Quotes - Adrian Mitchell
2007-10-07 09:56:00
“When I am sad and weary When I think all hope has gone When I walk along High Holborn I think of you with nothing on.” Adrian Mitchell (b. 1932) English poet and dramatist ...
 
Forgetfulness Quotes - Italo Svevo
2007-10-04 12:02:00
“There are three things I always forget. Names, faces, and – the third I can't remember.” Italo Svevo (1861 – 1928) Italian novelist ...
 
Conscience Quotes - Logan Pearsall Smith
2007-10-04 11:59:00
“Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.” Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 – 1946) British essayist and critic ...
 
Funny Quotes - Atheism - Woody Allen
2007-10-04 11:57:00
“To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.” Woody Allen (b. 1935) U.S. humorist, actor and film director ...
 
Employees Quotes - Steve Jobs
2007-10-04 11:54:00
“I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn't replace one of these people with 50 average people. They could just do stuff that no number of average people could do.” Jobs">Steve Jobs (b. 1955) U.S. co-founder and C.E.O. of Apple Computer, Inc. ...
 
Violence Quotes - Martin Luther King
2007-09-28 15:38:00
“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the... ...
 
Fear - Freedom Quotes - Eric Hoffer
2007-09-28 15:19:00
“The real 'haves' are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real 'have nots' are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it.... ...
 
Power Quotes - James Byrnes
2007-09-28 15:05:00
Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.” James F. Byrnes (1879 – 1972) U.S. politician ...
 
Immortality Quotes - Woody Allen
2007-09-28 15:02:00
“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.” Woody Allen (b. 1935) U.S. humorist, actor and film director ...
 
Habit Quotes - Youth - George Crabbe
2007-09-28 14:58:00
Habit with him was all the test of youth, It must be right: I've done it from my youth.” George Crabbe (1754 - 1832) English poet ...
 
Funny - Fools Quotes - Mark Twain
2007-09-28 14:56:00
“Ah well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His work must be contemplated with respect.” Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer ...
 
Finance Quotes - Robert Sarnoff
2007-09-28 14:50:00
Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.” Robert Sarnoff (b. 1918) U.S. TV executive ...
 
Absence - Justice Quotes - Brendan Behan
2007-09-28 14:47:00
“I was ... court-martialled in my absence, sentenced to death in my absence. So I said, right, you can shoot me in my absence.” Brendan Behan (1923 – 64) Irish playwright and poet ...
 
Strategy Quotes - Rosabeth Moss Kanter
2007-09-28 14:40:00
“To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.” Rosabeth Moss Kanter (b. 1943) U.S. management theorist, academic and writer ...
 
Praise Quotes - Mary Kay Ash
2007-09-28 14:33:00
“Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.” Mary Kay Ash (1915 – 2001) U.S. founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics ...
 
Dictatorship - Democracy Quotes - Peres
2007-09-26 16:37:00
“Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.” Shimon Peres (b. 1923) Israeli prime minister ...
 
Human Rights Quotes - Eleanor Roosevelt
2007-09-26 16:19:00
“One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.” Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 – 1962) U.S. human... ...
 
Military Power Quotes - Eisenhower
2007-09-26 16:17:00
“In the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” Dwight David Eisenhower (1890 – 1969) U.S. president ...
 
Responsibility Quotes - Nancy Peretsman
2007-09-26 16:13:00
“There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to the same thing. Deny your responsibility.” Nancy Peretsman (b. 1955) U.S. investment banker ...
 
Sincerity Quotes - John F Kennedy
2007-09-26 16:10:00
“Civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof.” John F. Kennedy (1917 – 63) U.S. president ...
 
 
 
 
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