Famous quotes from famous people

Our society has gone through dramatic changes, but there is still a lot of wisdom to absorb from historical people who lived a long time ago.

Now we invite you to experience this wisdom again. We will do this by presenting some of the most famous quotes from one of the most famous people who lived on our planet.

Get ready to be inspired, or to have your mind blown by quotes from people like Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Ghandi, Bob Marley, Anne Frank and several others.

If you’d rather want to read quotes from a specific person, go to this page.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Isaac Newton

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Marcus Aurelius

Happiness and freedom begin with one principle. Some things are within your control and some are not.

– Epictetus

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

Jeanne d’Arc

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

Nelson Mandela

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

– Mahatma Gandhi

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

– Aristotle

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Charles Darwin

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.

– Kofi Annan

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

– Franklin D. Roosevelt

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Charlie Chaplin

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

– Marcus Aurelius

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Bob Marley

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

– John F. Kennedy

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Leonardo da Vinci

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

Benjamin Franklin

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

– Heraclitus of Ephesus

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

Karl Marx

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

Bruce Lee

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

Galileo Galilei

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Che Guevara