More Inspiring, Insightful Or Funny Quotes From Famous People

by allinspiration.com

“Don’t be so humble – you are not that great.”
– Golda Meir (1898-1978) To A Visiting Diplomat

“A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.”
– Gore Vidal

“I’ve had a wonderful time, but this wasn’t it.”
– Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

“Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.”
– Guy Davenport

“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
– H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
– H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

“He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.”
– H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it”
– Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

“Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.”
– Henry Ford (1863-1947)

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
– Henry Ford (1863-1947)

“The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.”
– Henry Kissinger (1923-)

“I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.”
– Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.”
– Isaac Asimov

“If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.”
– J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.”
– James Branch Cabell

“Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.”
– James Stephens (1882-1950)

“The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.”
– Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”
– Jimi Hendrix

“Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.”
– Jimmy Durante

“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.”
– John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960)

“The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.”
– John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

“I think ‘Hail to the Chief’ has a nice ring to it.”
– John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

“Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.”
– John Von Neumann (1903-1957)

“You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.”
– Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)

“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
– Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
– Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.”
– Mario Andretti

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
– Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
– Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

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