Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Thinker, Essayist, Philosopher.
Welcome to Famous Quotes For You.
Quotations by famous and successful people - famous quotes - are one of the best ways of remaining inspired and motivated. I have used them for as long as I can remember. Below are some of my favorite ones. Read them on and off. If you like any particular ones, print them out and paste them where you can see them regularly. Keep returning as this page will be frequently updated.
Many times, what seems difficult from one angle appears easy or even interesting or funny from another. However, on our own, because of our
particular thinking pattern or the circumstances that we are in, we are unable to see the other angle. But there are millions of people who have gone through similar circumstances before us. And many of them have overcome those circumstances and become successful in their mission. It is through their eyes that we can see the other angle of the situation. The wisdom of these successful people is reflected in what they say. It is but natural that when we read their inspired sayings, we also become inspired. Here is what some great minds have said about quotations.
Reading Inspirational and Motivational Quotes daily is like taking my vitamins.
- Rosie Cash
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Winston Churchill
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.
- Isaac Disraeli
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away with the centuries, although it serves as food for every speech.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired.
- Richard Kemph
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
- Somerset Maugham
A proper collection of quotations is the whole world digested.
- Emma Racine deFleur
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
- Lord John Russell
A quotation/saying should be short and witty to be interesting and effective. The following couplet expresses this beautifully:
What is an Epigram? a dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Finally, my feelings about this collection are expressed perfectly below:
Someone might say of me that I have only made a bouquet of other people's flowers here, having supplied nothing of my own but the thread to bind them.
- Michel de Montaigne
This is a collection of only motivational famous quotes. The topics are as given below.
