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Timeless Quotes from Famous People Worth Reading
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Timeless Quotes from Famous People Worth Reading

Many of us have a favorite collection of quotes that stay with us throughout life, prompting us to reflect on the meaning of our existence, holding up a mirror to us, or simply offering reassurance that everything is exactly as it should be. Let’s take a look at some statements from individuals whose names represent a contribution to society.

In this article, you will discover:

  1. Quotes from Famous Artists
  2. Sayings of Famous Personalities
  3. Quotes from Famous Women
  4. Life Quotes by Famous People
  5. Quotes from Famous Philosophers

Quotes from Famous Artists

  • "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." – Pablo Picasso
  • "If you hear a voice within you say, 'You cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." – Vincent Van Gogh
  • "Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art." – Andy Warhol
  • "Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen." – Leonardo da Vinci
  • "There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people." – Vincent Van Gogh
  • "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." – Pablo Picasso
  • "Color is my day-long obsession, joy, and torment." – Claude Monet
  • "Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it." – Salvador Dalí
  • "You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club." – Jack London

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  • "Originality is nothing but judicious imitation." – Voltaire
  • "Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things." – Ray Bradbury
  • "Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while." – Steve Jobs
  • "Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas." – Donatella Versace
  • "I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart." – Vincent Van Gogh
  • "If I could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint." – Edward Hopper
  • "If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing." – Marc Chagall
  • "A good artist has less time than ideas." – Martin Kippenberger
  • "I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality." – Frida Kahlo
  • "No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist." – Oscar Wilde
  • "Painting is just another way of keeping a diary." – Pablo Picasso

Sayings of Famous Personalities

  • "Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable." – Coco Chanel
  • "Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out." – John Wooden
  • "Courage is grace under pressure." – Ernest Hemingway
  • "If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary." – Jim Rohn
  • "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." – Albert Einstein
  • "Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success." – Swami Vivekananda
  • "Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others." – Ellen DeGeneres
  • "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." – Walt Disney
  • "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." – Confucius
  • "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." – Winston Churchill

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  • "Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." – Warren Buffett
  • "Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them." – Vaibhav Shah
  • "Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened." – Dr. Seuss
  • "Success? I don’t know what that word means. I’m happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody’s eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That’s a good day for me." – Denzel Washington
  • "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." – Mae West
  • "Opportunities don’t happen. You create them." – Chris Grosser
  • "Once you choose hope, anything’s possible." – Christopher Reeve
  • "Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value." – Albert Einstein
  • "There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires." – Nelson Mandela
  • "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." – Charles Darwin
  • "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart." – Helen Keller
  • "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." – Eleanor Roosevelt
  • "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." – Mahatma Gandhi
  • "The best revenge is massive success." – Frank Sinatra
  • "The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting." – Walt Disney
  • "I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work." – Thomas Edison
  • "When you stop dreaming, you stop living." – Malcolm Forbes
  • "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." – David Brinkley

Quotes from Famous Women

  • "The most effective way to do it, is to do it." – Amelia Earhart
  • "If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman." – Margaret Thatcher
  • "We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced." – Malala Yousafzai
  • "There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish." – Michelle Obama
  • "A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water." – Eleanor Roosevelt
  • "My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant being your own person, being independent." – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • "At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can." – Frida Kahlo
  • "Women who believe in each other create armies that will win kingdoms and wars." – Nikita Gill
  • "One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That’s the way all women should feel." – Marilyn Monroe
  • "You may enter many rooms where you may be the only one who looks like you or who has had your experiences. So use that voice and be strong." – Kamala Harris
  • "Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness." – Oprah Winfrey
  • "If you’re always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be." – Maya Angelou
  • "Power is not given to you. You have to take it." – Beyonce
  • "I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls." – Audrey Hepburn
  • "A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman." – Melinda Gates

Life Quotes by Famous People

  • "The purpose of our lives is to be happy." – Dalai Lama
  • "Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans." – John Lennon
  • "Get busy living or get busy dying." – Stephen King
  • "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." – Mae West
  • "Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." – Thomas A. Edison
  • "If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things." – Albert Einstein
  • "Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game." – Babe Ruth
  • "Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there." – Will Smith
  • "If life were predictable, it would cease to be life, and be without flavor." – Eleanor Roosevelt
  • "The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it." – Henry Ford
  • "If you want to write about life, you must first live it." – Ernest Hemingway
  • "The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything." – Frank Sinatra
  • "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." – Dolly Parton
  • "Do all the good you can, for all the people you can, in all the ways you can, as long as you can." – Hillary Clinton (inspired by John Wesley)
  • "Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something." – Ashton Kutcher
  • "Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually, it will pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off." – Kevin Hart
  • "Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise." – Kobe Bryant
  • "I like criticism. It makes you strong." – LeBron James
  • "You never learn much from hearing yourself talk." – George Clooney
  • "Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through it." – Celine Dion
  • "Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, justice, and freedom." – John F. Kennedy
  • "Live for each second without hesitation." – Elton John
  • "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." – Albert Einstein
  • "The healthiest response to life is joy." – Deepak Chopra
  • "Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once." – Lillian Dickson
  • "In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on." – Robert Frost

Quotes from Famous Philosophers

  • "The unexamined life is not worth living." – Socrates
  • "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • "Entities should not be multiplied without necessity." – William of Ockham
  • "The life of man (in a state of nature) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." – Thomas Hobbes
  • "I think, therefore I am." ("Cogito, ergo sum.") – René Descartes
  • "He who has great thoughts often makes great errors." – Martin Heidegger
  • "We live in the best of all possible worlds." – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  • "What is rational is real and what is real is rational." – Hegel
  • "God is dead! He remains dead! And we have killed him." – Friedrich Nietzsche
  • "There is only one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide." – Albert Camus
  • "No man ever steps in the same river twice." – Heraclitus
  • "The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation." – Jeremy Bentham
  • "To be is to be perceived." – Bishop George Berkeley
  • "Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination." – Immanuel Kant
  • "No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience." – John Locke
  • "God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us." – Niccolò Machiavelli
  • "Freedom consists in doing what one desires." – John Stuart Mill
  • "While they teach, men learn." – Seneca the Younger
  • "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." – Socrates
  • "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." – Voltaire
  • "This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities." – Bertrand Russell
  • "There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another." – René Descartes
  • "Leisure is the mother of philosophy." – Thomas Hobbes
  • "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language." – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • "There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers." – William James
  • "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." – Aristotle
  • "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." – Søren Kierkegaard
  • "Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know." – Bertrand Russell
  • "Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck." – Immanuel Kant
  • "Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits." – William James
  • "History is philosophy teaching by examples." – Thucydides
  • "He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god." – Aristotle
  • "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." – Plato