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Famous Inspirational Quotes
to get you through the day
Famous inspirational quotes are transformational messages. This collection of famous quotes will inspire you in all situations. Most inspirational quotes come from people who have left their marks on mankind. Who was it that said: "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." Yes, that was Mother Teresa. Great leaders from different backgrounds - religion, politics, science or philosophy - have spoken kind and inspiring words that left endless echoes for generations after them.
Find famous inspirational quotes with powerful motivation for difficult times or challenging moments of important decision-making.
Freedom
"It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed." – Lenin
"A man’s worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes." – T.H. Huxley
"Be a lamp unto yourself and seek your own liberation with diligence." – Buddha
"People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have, for example, freedom of thought; instead they demand freedom of speech as compensation." – Soren Kierkegaard
"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." – Hubert H. Humphrey
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." - George Orwell
"A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills." – Arthur Schopenhaur
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."
--Albert Einstein
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Greatness
"The price of greatness is responsibility." – Winston Churchill
"No truly great man ever thought himself so." – William Hazlitt
"The three signs of great men are – generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success." – Otto van Bismarck
Integrity
"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder." – George Washington
"Integrity is the essence of everything successful." – R. Buckminster Fuller
"Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. But if you don’t have the first, the other two could kill you." – Warren Buffet
Knowledge and Intelligence
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance." – Confucius
"Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise." – Heraclitus
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine." – H.L. Mencken
"For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift." – G.H Hardy
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Some random famous inspirational quotes
"Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?" - Robin Williams
"Cathedrals cannot be built by those who are paralyzed by doubt and cynicism" - Henry Kissinger
"The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain." - John F. Kennedy
"Everything you can imagine is real." - Pablo Picasso
"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Present fears are less than horrible imaginings." - William Shakespeare
"Every artist was first an amateur." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently." - Henry Ford
"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln
William Barclay, Scottish theologian and author (1907-1978) said,
There are two great days in a person's life-
the day we are born, and the day we discover why.
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