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Updated: THE 101 MOST FAMOUS QUOTABLE QUOTES OF ALL TIME

these quotes are the all-time favorites. The best of the best. The hall of fame of famous quotes.

What makes a quote so popular that it endures year after year, finding itself again and again on the inside of dust jackets in every bookstore across America?

 As the editor of this site, I come across some of the same quotes over and over again.
But I don’t mind… Some quotes are just plain awesome. And below we have some of the best, most quotable quotes ever uttered.

METHODOLOGY
I used a few different sources to decide which quotes should make the cut, but mostly I relied on publicly available search data.

Basically, if lots of people are searching for a quote, it’s probably pretty popular.

There are a few different sites that allow users to “vote” on quotes, such as goodreads.com. This was helpful in finding popular quotes by specific authors if I knew that there was a lot of interest in a specific person

I also owe a debt of gratitude to the quoteinvestigator.com. Many famous quotes have uncertain origins, and this site helped me approximate the proper source when it was unclear.

A lot of the usual characters are here. Mark Twain, Einstein, Benjamin Franklin… But there are a few I didn’t expect as well.

I’ll update this list with new quotes if people think I missed a good one. So if you have a contribution, feel free to add it in the comments below.

But for now, enough chit-chat. Here are the quotes:

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
-Albert Einstein
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-Maurice Switzer
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
-Dr Suess
If you want something done right, do it yourself.-Charles-Guillaume Étienne
The unexamined life is not worth living.
-Socrates


Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
-St Augustine
An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
-Mahatma Gandhi
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
-Robert Frost
Necessity is the mother of invention.
-Plato
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
-Alexander Pope
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-Albert Einstein
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
-Martin Luther King Jr
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
-Mark Twain
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.-Proverb

With great power comes great responsibility.-Voltaire

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.-Theodore Roosevelt

The pen is mightier than the sword.-Proverb

Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.-Forrest Gump’s Mom
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
-Albert Einstein

Familiarity breeds contempt.
-Aesop
It is always darkest just before the dawn.
-Thomas Fuller
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
-John F. Kennedy
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
-Mark Twain
If you are going through hell, keep going.
-Winston Churchill
You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.
-William W. Purkey
Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right.

-Henry Ford
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
-Juliet
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
-Albert Einstein
A penny saved is a penny earned.
-Benjamin Franklin
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
-John F. Kennedy
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
You talking to me?
-Taxi Driver
Ignorance is bliss.

-Thomas Gray
Fortune favours the bold.
-Proverb
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.
-Mark Twain
You can’t always get what you want.
-The Rolling Stones
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.
-Kahlil Gibran
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

-Thomas Jefferson
Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
-James Dean
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again.
-William Edward Hickson
I think therefore I am.
- Descartes
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
-Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
-Mae West
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
-Martin Luther King Jr
Hell has no fury like a woman scorned.

-William Congreve
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Idle hands are the devil’s playground.
-Unknown
Time is money.
-Benjamin Franklin
First do no harm.
-Hippocrates
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
-William Shakespeare
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
-Proverb
Living well is the best revenge.

-George Herbert
Show me the money!!!
-Jerry Maguire
That’s one small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind.
-Neil Armstrong
You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.
-Proverb
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
-Plato
Good artists copy; great artists steal.
-T. S. Eliot
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

-Mark Twain
Do one thing every day that scares you.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
-John Dalberg-Acton
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
-Albert Einstein
Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.
-Thomas Jefferson
Live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse.
-Irene L. Luce
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

-Malcolm Forbes
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
-Buddha
People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
-Proverb
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
-William Shakespeare
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
-Corinthians 13:4-8
 For those to whom much is given, much is required.
-John F. Kennedy
I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.

Houston, we have a problem.
-Opollo 13
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
-Walt Disney
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

-Groucho Marx
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
-Albert Einstein
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
-Proverb
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
-Marthe Troly-Curtin
I haven’t failed, I’ve found 10,000 ways that don’t work.
-Thomas Edison
To thine own self, be true.
-William Shakespeare
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.
-Mark Twain
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
-Albert Einstein
Nothing is certain except for death and taxes.
-Christopher Bullock


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