200 Most Famous Quotes

 200 Most Famous Quotes 

"I think, therefore I am." – René Descartes  

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." – Franklin D. Roosevelt  

"To be or not to be, that is the question." – William Shakespeare  

"In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take." – Lewis Carroll  

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take." – Wayne Gretzky  

"I have a dream." – Martin Luther King Jr.  

"Be the change you wish to see in the world." – Mahatma Gandhi  

"Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans." – John Lennon  

"The unexamined life is not worth living." – Socrates  

"Not all those who wander are lost." – J.R.R. Tolkien  

"Stay hungry, stay foolish." – Steve Jobs  

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." – Nelson Mandela  

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger." – Friedrich Nietzsche  

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." – Louisa May Alcott  

"The best way to predict the future is to create it." – Peter Drucker  

"It always seems impossible until it’s done." – Nelson Mandela  

"No man is an island." – John Donne  

"Carpe diem. Seize the day." – Horace  

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." – John F. Kennedy  

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." – Socrates  

"All you need is love." – The Beatles  

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by." – Robert Frost  

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." – Winston Churchill  

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." – Albert Einstein  

"Do or do not. There is no try." – Yoda (Star Wars)  

"With great power comes great responsibility." – Uncle Ben (Spider-Man)  

"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." – The Godfather Part II  

"The pen is mightier than the sword." – Edward Bulwer-Lytton  

"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." – Maya Angelou  

"To infinity and beyond!" – Buzz Lightyear (Toy Story)  

"Whatever you are, be a good one." – Abraham Lincoln  

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." – Lao Tzu  

"Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened." – Dr. Seuss  

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." – William Shakespeare  

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." – African Proverb  

"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions." – Dalai Lama  

"Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration." – Thomas Edison  

"The mind is everything. What you think, you become." – Buddha  

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." – Mahatma Gandhi  

"Life is like a Wi-Fi signal—just when you think you’re connected, it drops." – Unknown  

"I came, I saw, I conquered." – Julius Caesar  

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." – Muhammad Ali  

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." – Steve Jobs  

"In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on." – Robert Frost  

"There is no spoon." – The Matrix  

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." – Nelson Mandela  

"A day without laughter is a day wasted." – Charlie Chaplin  

"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." – André Gide  

"The truth will set you free." – John 8:32 (Bible)  

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." – Leonardo da Vinci  

"I’m not here to be average, I’m here to be awesome." – Unknown  

"What we think, we become." – Buddha  

"Dream big and dare to fail." – Norman Vaughan  

"Good artists copy, great artists steal." – Pablo Picasso  

"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." – Neil Armstrong  

"You can’t handle the truth!" – A Few Good Men  

"Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right." – Henry Ford  

"I’ll be back." – The Terminator  

"Fear is the mind-killer." – Frank Herbert (Dune)  

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy." – Dalai Lama  

"Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet." – Sarah Louise Delany  

"May the Force be with you." – Star Wars  

"The best revenge is massive success." – Frank Sinatra  

"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up." – Vince Lombardi  

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." – Franklin D. Roosevelt  

"If you’re going through hell, keep going." – Winston Churchill  

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little." – Plato  

"Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice." – Steve Jobs  

"Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear." – George Addair  

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." – Oscar Wilde  

"There’s no place like home." – The Wizard of Oz  

"I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul." – William Ernest Henley  

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today." – Franklin D. Roosevelt  

"What doesn’t kill you makes you stranger." – The Dark Knight  

"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great." – Zig Ziglar  

"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." – Marthe Troly-Curtin  

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." – Albert Einstein  

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." – Eleanor Roosevelt  

"All the world’s a stage." – William Shakespeare  

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

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." – Oscar Wilde  

"I’d rather die on my feet than live on my knees." – Emiliano Zapata  

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." – Helen Keller  

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." – Edmund Burke  

"Turn your wounds into wisdom." – Oprah Winfrey  

"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." – Socrates  

"You are enough." – Maya Angelou  

"It’s better to burn out than to fade away." – Neil Young  

"The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself." – Unknown  

"Every moment is a fresh beginning." – T.S. Eliot  

"I’m king of the world!" – Titanic  

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there." – Theodore Roosevelt  

"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever." – Lance Armstrong  

"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows." – Ralph Marston  

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." – Martin Luther King Jr.  

"To thine own self be true." – William Shakespeare  

"You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." – Jon Kabat-Zinn  

"When one door closes, another opens." – Alexander Graham Bell  

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul." – Emily Dickinson  

"Keep going. Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time." – Unknown

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"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." – J.K. Rowling  

"Houston, we have a problem." – Apollo 13 (film)  

"The world is not enough." – James Bond  

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." – William Shakespeare  

"There’s a fine line between genius and insanity." – Oscar Levant  

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." – Mahatma Gandhi  

"I see dead people." – The Sixth Sense  

"The past is never dead. It’s not even past." – William Faulkner  

"Just keep swimming." – Finding Nemo  

"Many lack the originality to lack originality." – Jim Jarmusch  

"You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain." – The Dark Knight  

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." – Eleanor Roosevelt  

"Elementary, my dear Watson." – Sherlock Holmes (attributed)  

"The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know." – Albert Einstein  

"Why so serious?" – The Dark Knight  

"We accept the love we think we deserve." – Stephen Chbosky  

"Here’s looking at you, kid." – Casablanca  

"Knowledge is power." – Francis Bacon  

"I’m too old for this shit." – Lethal Weapon  

"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." – Stephen Hawking  

"E.T. phone home." – E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial  

"It’s alive! It’s alive!" – Frankenstein (film)  

"Hell is other people." – Jean-Paul Sartre  

"Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn." – Gone with the Wind  

"Life’s too short to fold fitted sheets." – Unknown  

"Go ahead, make my day." – Sudden Impact  

"A man’s got to know his limitations." – Dirty Harry  

"If you build it, they will come." – Field of Dreams  

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." – Martin Luther King Jr.  

"Say hello to my little friend!" – Scarface  

"You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find you get what you need." – The Rolling Stones  

"I’m walking here!" – Midnight Cowboy  

"The first rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club." – Fight Club  

"After all, tomorrow is another day." – Gone with the Wind  

"You talkin’ to me?" – Taxi Driver  

"I feel the need—the need for speed!" – Top Gun  

"There is no fate but what we make." – Terminator 2  

"What we’ve got here is failure to communicate." – Cool Hand Luke  

"Love means never having to say you’re sorry." – Love Story  

"The cake is a lie." – Portal (video game)  

"I’ll have what she’s having." – When Harry Met Sally  

"Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore." – The Wizard of Oz  

"There can be only one." – Highlander  

"You had me at hello." – Jerry Maguire  

"They may take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom!" – Braveheart  

"I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her." – Notting Hill  

"Run, Forrest, run!" – Forrest Gump  

"I drink your milkshake!" – There Will Be Blood  

"Hasta la vista, baby." – Terminator 2  

"Nobody puts Baby in a corner." – Dirty Dancing  

"My precious." – The Lord of the Rings  

"Show me the money!" – Jerry Maguire  

"I’m the king of the world!" – Titanic  

"You complete me." – Jerry Maguire  

"This is Sparta!" – 300  

"There’s no crying in baseball!" – A League of Their Own  

"I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse." – The Godfather  

"Bond. James Bond." – Dr. No  

"It’s not a tumor!" – Kindergarten Cop  

"You shall not pass!" – The Lord of the Rings  

"Wax on, wax off." – The Karate Kid  

"I’m not bad. I’m just drawn that way." – Who Framed Roger Rabbit  

"Life is a box of chocolates—you never know what you’re gonna get." – Forrest Gump  

"Keep the change, ya filthy animal." – Home Alone  

"Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker!" – Die Hard  

"I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that." – 2001: A Space Odyssey  

"Get busy living, or get busy dying." – The Shawshank Redemption  

"Here’s Johnny!" – The Shining  

"I’m flying, Jack!" – Titanic  

"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good." – Wall Street  

"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in." – The Godfather Part III  

"The stuff that dreams are made of." – The Maltese Falcon  

"I want to believe." – The X-Files  

"To boldly go where no man has gone before." – Star Trek  

"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." – The Shining  

"I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!" – The Wizard of Oz  

"You’re gonna need a bigger boat." – Jaws  

"It’s a trap!" – Star Wars: Return of the Jedi  

"I’ve got a bad feeling about this." – Star Wars  

"The dude abides." – The Big Lebowski  

"That’ll do, pig. That’ll do." – Babe  

"Inconceivable!" – The Princess Bride  

"As you wish." – The Princess Bride  

"Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." – The Princess Bride  

"I’m on top of the world, Ma!" – White Heat  

"There’s always money in the banana stand." – Arrested Development  

"Winter is coming." – Game of Thrones  

"You know nothing, Jon Snow." – Game of Thrones  

"A Lannister always pays his debts." – Game of Thrones  

"I am Groot." – Guardians of the Galaxy  

"O Captain! My Captain!" – Walt Whitman (popularized by Dead Poets Society)  

"Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary." – Dead Poets Society  

"Hakuna matata." – The Lion King  

"Ohana means family." – Lilo & Stitch  

"Adventure is out there!" – Up  

"To the stars!" – Ad Astra  

"I volunteer as tribute!" – The Hunger Games  

"May the odds be ever in your favor." – The Hunger Games  

"I am inevitable." – Avengers: Endgame  

"I love you 3000." – Avengers: Endgame

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There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." – William Shakespeare (Hamlet, technically literature, but philosophically rich)

 We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." – Aristotle (paraphrased from Nicomachean Ethics)

 He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." – Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols)

 What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears." – Seneca (Moral Letters to Lucilius)

 

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive." – John Green (Looking for Alaska)

 All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." – George Orwell (Animal Farm)

 "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." – Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)

 

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