Famous People Quotes

Famous People Quotes:

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. –Abraham Lincoln

Throughout history, people have been stirred to action by the voices of famous people. Political leaders, entertainers, authors and musicians who put great emotion and wisdom into their messages. This page of famous people quotes is a place to share videos, quotes, stories, and music about what stirs your soul to take action!




As you think, so shall you become. Bruce Lee






A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Benjamin Franklin






"When you wake up...everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man regains his sight what has changed?" Dan Millman- The Way of The Peaceful Warrior






"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." -Theodore Roosevelt

"My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders." -Mark Twain

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other." -Mother Teresa

"It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen." -Brigitte Bardot

"No matter how much cats fight, they always seem to have plenty of kittens!" -Abraham Lincoln

"Freedom lies in being bold." -Robert Frost

"The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly." -Theodore Roosevelt

"Our bodies are our gardens, our wills are our gardeners." -William Shakespeare

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." -Theodore Roosevelt

"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have." -Ronald Reagan

"It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it." -Albert Einstein

"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Whatever you are be a good one." -Abraham Lincoln

"Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got." -Janis Joplin

"Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving." -Albert Einstein

"The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?" -Oprah Winfrey

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense." -Thomas Edison

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Love everyone in your life for any moment could be their last.

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"If I had six hours to chop down a tree I would spend the first four hours sharpening the saw." -Abraham Lincoln

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