A personal project

The World’s Greatest Quotes Collection

I’m a big fan of quotes. I collected of them over the years. Here I share all of them with you.

If you want to submit some of yours, be my guest.

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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

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We shall not prevent the gradual advance of totalitarian control if we do not succeed in defeating the philosophy which produces it.

The Road to Serfdom, p. 20, 1944

The great majority of men attend to what is necessary only when they feel a need for it—the precise time when it is too late.

Don’t underestimate the hole your absence would leave.

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Don’t wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

The Fall, p. 147, 1956

My father always used to say, don't raise your voice. Improve your argument.

God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time, p. 184, 2004

We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.

Solaris, 1961

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, 1987

If the job has been correctly done when a common stock is purchased, the time to sell is almost never.

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, p. 132, 2003

I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

The Disneyland Story television program (27 October 1954)

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution.

Nicomachean Ethics, Book II

I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.

Letter to John Tyndall (19 April 1851); letter 2411, edited by Frank A. J. L. James, 1999. The correspondence of Michael Faraday, Volume 4, p. 281

A man who is not on fire is nothing.

The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1932

Spring has come again. The earth is like a child that has learned poems by heart.

Sonnets to Orpheus, Part One, XXI

Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless center.

Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity