Deep quotes (556 quotes, page 6) | Quotes of famous people

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American inventor and businessman

As quoted in An Enemy Called Average (1990) by John L. Mason, p. 55.
Date unknown

Motivational , For Team , Attitude , Success

“The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes.”

Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman

“Thought,” p. 64
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Stone and a Word”

“We see things not as they are, but as we are ourselves.”

H. M. Tomlinson (1873–1958) British writer

The Gift http://books.google.com/books?id=TU8jSMUix_wC&q="We+see+things+not+as+they+are+but+as+we+are+ourselves"&pg=PA149#v=onepage

“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”

Sophia Loren (1934) Italian actress

As quoted in Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1982) by Jonathon Green, p. 340.

Beauty , Beauty , Feeling

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

Sharon Salzberg in an article in a magazine called “Woman of Power” in 1989
Misattributed

love , Wise , Cute , Romantic

“The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”

Eugene Kennedy (1928–2015) American psychologist

Eugene Kennedy, cited in: Kathy Wagoner (2002) The Promise of Friendship. p. 284

Friendship , Relationship , Cute , For Friend

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”

Truman Capote (1924–1984) American author

From "Self-Portrait" (1972)
Truman Capote: Conversations (1987)

Motivational , Success , Inspirational , Wise

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”

Albert Camus book The Rebel

Introduction
The Rebel (1951)

For Men

“Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune:
every success depends upon focusing the heart.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

III, 2302-5
Jewels of Remembrance (1996)

Search , Success , Heart , Dependency

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States

The earliest citation yet found does not attribute this to Roosevelt, but presents it as a piece of anonymous piece folk-wisdom: "When one reaches the end of his rope, he should tie a knot in it and hang on" ( LIFE magazine (3 April 1919), p. 585 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89063018576?urlappend=%3Bseq=65).
Misattributed
Variant: When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Motivational , For Team , Success , Inspirational

“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”

Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American inventor and businessman

As quoted in Thomas Alva Edison : Sixty Years of an Inventor's Life (1908) by Francis Arthur Jones, p. 14.
1900s

Motivational , Success , Inspirational , Waiting

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

Misattributed
Variant: We are what we repeatedly do, therefore excellence is not an act, but a habit.
Source: Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers (1926), reprinted in Simon & Schuster/Pocket Books, 1991, ISBN 0-671-73916-6], Ch. II: Aristotle and Greek Science; part VII: Ethics and the Nature of Happiness: "Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly; 'these virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions'; we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit: 'the good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life... for as it is not one swallow or one fine day that makes a spring, so it is not one day or a short time that makes a man blessed and happy'" (p. 76). The quoted phrases within the quotation are from the Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, 4; Book I, 7. The misattribution is from taking Durant's summation of Aristotle's ideas as being the words of Aristotle himself.

Motivational , Success , Inspirational , Leadership

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”

Аллен Сондерс (1899–1986)

Motivational , Wise , Success , Inspirational

“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”

Robin Williams (1951–2014) American actor and stand-up comedian

Motivational , Inspirational , Wise , Success

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947) actor, businessman and politician of Austrian-American heritage

Motivational , Success , Inspirational , Powerful

“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. ”

Jimmy Dean (1928–2010) American singer

Motivational , Wise , Inspirational , Change

“The best way to predict the future is to create it. ”

Форрест Шакли (1894–1985)

Motivational , Success , Happy , Inspirational

“A ship in harbor is safe — but that is not what ships are built for. ”

Джон Шедд (1850–1926)

Business , Graduation

“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.”

Vince Lombardi (1913–1970) American football player, coach, and executive

Wise , Success , Inspirational , Life

“Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.”

Vince Lombardi (1913–1970) American football player, coach, and executive

Inspirational , Attitude , Wise , For women

“Stay close to anything that makes you glad that you are alive.”

Ralph Smart

Motivational , Wise , Inspirational , Making love

“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.”

Johnny Cash (1932–2003) American singer-songwriter

Wise , Inspirational , Life , Powerful

“To be and not to be, that is the answer.”

Piet Hein (1905–1996) Danish puzzle designer, mathematician, author, poet

This witticism derived from William Shakespeare's line "To be or not to be; that is the question" in Hamlet, has sometimes been attributed to Hein, but also to many others. The earliest occurrence so far located in research for Wikiquote was published in A Calendar of Doubts and Faiths (1930) by William Marias Malisoff.
Misattributed

Motivational , Inspirational , Attitude , love

“Things change, and they don’t change back.”

James S.A. Corey

Source: The Night We Buried Road Dog (1993), p. 488

Motivational , Success , Inspirational , Change

“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”

Suzy Kassem (1975) American writer

Motivational , Success , Inspirational , Courageous

“Be the change that you want to see in the world.”

Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India

World , Change , Motivational , Attitude

“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician

World , Heart , Attitude

“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.”

Etty Hillesum (1914–1943) Jewish diarist

Peaceful

“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.”

Jerome (345–420) Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church

Motivational , Success , Inspirational , Graduation

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet

Happiness , Motivational , Happy , Success

“If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.”

Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer

“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

Anger , Wise

“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

Success , Friendship , Relationship , Cute

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States

Inspirational , Success , For Team , Motivational

“Silence is deep as Eternity, Speech is shallow as Time.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

Time , Silence

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American writer

World , Change , Motivational , Inspirational

“All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.”

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist

Waiting , Hope , Wisdom , Hope

“Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

World , Heart , Success , Happy

“If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”

Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) American psychologist

Problem , Success

“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

Motivational , Attitude , Funny , Success

“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.”

John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic

Intelligence , Effort

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

Way , Happiness , Happy , Cute

“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”

Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant

Success

“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.”

John Barrymore (1882–1942) American actor of stage, screen and radio

Happiness , Happy , Motivational , Wise

“When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

Perfection , Peaceful , Powerful

“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 (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

Idea , Success , Dreams , Thinking

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply!”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician

Inspirational , Motivational , Wise , Success

“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”

Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet

Inspirational , Motivational , Leadership , Life

“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

Thinking , Inspirational , Wise , Depressing

“When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

Motivational , Success , Inspirational

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

Past , Future , Dreams , Motivational

“Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”

Albert Camus (1913–1960) French author and journalist

Widely attributed, but likely apocryphal. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/08/23/friend/ Researchers have searched for this quote unsuccessfully in Camus' extant works.
Disputed

Friendship , For Friend , For Bestfriend

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”

Adam Silvera book They Both Die at the End

John Shedd, p. 81
They Both Die at the End (2017)

Business , Graduation

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that's all.”

Adam Silvera book They Both Die at the End

Oscar Wilde, p. 1
They Both Die at the End (2017)

World , People , Wise , Life