The 100 most famous phrases of all time (2023)

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Many of these experts condense their experience and wisdom into short, powerful, and inspirational quotes. Discover 100 of them in this post.

1. “Spread love wherever you go. May no one come to you without leaving happier.” -Mutter Teresa

2. "When you get to the end of the rope, tie a knot in it and hold on." -Franklin D. Roosevelt

3. "Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else." -Daisy Met

4. "Judge each day not by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you sow." -Robert Louis Stevenson

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

6. "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." -Benjamin Franklin

7. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they must be felt with the heart." -Helen Keller

8. "In our darkest moments, we need to focus on seeing the light." -Aristotle

9. "Whoever is happy will also make others happy." -Anna Frank

10. "Don't go where the path leads, go where there is no path and leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

11. "If life were predictable, it would cease to be life and would be tasteless." -Eleanor Roosevelt

12. "In the end, it's not the years of your life that count. It's the life of your years." -Abraham Lincoln

13. "Life is a series of lessons that must be lived in order to be understood." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

14. "You will suffer many defeats in life, but never allow yourself to be defeated." -Maya Angelou

fifteen. "Never let the fear of a punch stop you from playing." -Babe Ruth

sixteen. "Life is never fair, and perhaps it's a good thing for most of us that it's not fair." -Oscar Wilde

17. "The only impossible journey is the one you never take." -Toni Robbins

18. “We cannot do great things in this life. We can only do small things with great love.” -Mutter Teresa

19. "Only a life lived for others is a life worth living." -Albert Einstein

20. "The purpose of our life is to be happy." -Dalai Lama

21. "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." -John Lennon

22. "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." -There are

23. "Live in the sun, swim in the sea, drink in the wild air." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

24. "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you envisioned." -Henry David Thoreau

25. "The greatest glory of life is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." -Nelson Mandela

26. "Life is really simple, but we insist on complicating it." -Confucius

27. "May you live all the days of your life." -Jonathan Swift

28. "Life itself is the most beautiful fairy tale." -Hans Christian Andersen

29. "Don't let that stop you from making a living." -wooden John

30. "Life is ours to spend, not to save." -DH Lawrence

31. "Keep smiling because life is beautiful and there is a lot to laugh about." -Marilyn Monroe

32. "Life is a long lesson in humility."-James M. Barrie

33. "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: keep going." -Robert Frost

34. "Love the life you live, live the life you love." -Bob Marley

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

36. "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can go in any direction you choose." -Doctor Seuss

37. "Life is made up of many parts welded together." -Charles Dickens

38. "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. -Steve Jobs

39. "Life tries things to see if they work." -Ray Bradbury

40. "Many failures in life are people who didn't realize how close they came to success when they gave up." -Thomas A. Edison

41. "The secret of success is to do the ordinary exceptionally well." -John D. Rockefeller jr.

42. "I think the harder I work, the happier I seem to be." -Thomas Jefferson

43. "Success is not final; failure is not fatal: what counts is the courage to keep going." -Winston S. Churchill

44. "The way to start is to stop talking and start taking action." -Walt Disney

45. "Don't let criticism distract you. Remember: the only taste of success some people have is biting you." -zigzag

46. "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to look for it." -Henry David Thoreau

47. "I never dreamed of success, I worked for it." -Estee Lauder

48. "Success seems to be linked to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't give up." -Conrad Hilton

49. "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure." -Colin Powell

50. “The real test isn't whether you avoid that failure because you won't. It is whether you harden it, or let it shame you in inaction, or learn from it; whether you choose to persevere." -Barack Obama

51. "The only limit to our knowledge tomorrow will be our doubts today." -Franklin D. Roosevelt

52. "It is better to fail at originality than to succeed at imitation." -Herman Melville

53. “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do. Don't wish it were easier; -Jim Rohn

54. "The path to success and the path to failure are almost exactly the same." -Colin R. Davis

55. "I failed on my way to success." -Thomas Edison

56. "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you'll fail before everyone else's success." -James Cameron

57. "If you look closely, most overnight successes have taken a long time." -Steve Jobs

58. "A successful man is one who can lay a solid foundation with the stones others have thrown at him." -David Brinkley

59. "Things work best for those who make the most of how things work." -wooden John

60. "Don't try to become a successful man. Rather become a valuable man." -Albert Einstein

61. "Don't be afraid to give up the good to achieve the best." -John D. Rockefeller

62. "Always remember that your own will to succeed is more important than anything else." -Abraham Lincoln

63. "Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." -Winston Churchill

64. "You know you're on your way to success when you're doing your job and not getting paid for it." -Oprah Winfrey

Sixty-five. "If you want to achieve excellence, you can achieve it today. From this second, stop doing less than excellent work." -Thomas J. Watson

66. "If you really want something, don't wait, learn to be impatient." -Gurbaksh Chahal

67. "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." -Vidal Sassoon

68. "Those who are not willing to risk the usual must be satisfied with the usual." -Jim Rohn

69. "First of all, preparation is the key to success." -Alexander Graham Bell

70. “Successful people have momentum. The more successful they are, the more they want to be successful and the more they find a path to success. When someone fails, they tend to get caught in a downward spiral that can even become an I ". - Fulfillment of Prophecy".Toni Robbins

71. "Believe you can and you're halfway there." -Theodore Roosevelt

72. "The only person you are meant to become is the person you choose to be." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

74. "The question is not who will let me, but who will stop me." -Ayn Rand

75. "Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is." -Vince Lombardi

76. "Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right." -Henry Ford

77. "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." -Wayne Gretzky

78. "I alone cannot change the world, but I can throw a stone into the water to create many waves." -Mutter Teresa

79. "You become what you believe." -Oprah Winfrey

80. "The hardest thing is deciding to act, the rest is sheer persistence." -Amelia Earhart

81. "How wonderful that no one has to wait a moment before starting to make the world a better place." -Anna Frank

82. "An unexamined life is not worth living." -Socrates

83. "All you ever wanted is on the other side of fear." -Jörg Addair

84. "Dream big and dare to fail." -Norman Vaughn

85. "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." -alfizares de beverly

86. "Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it." -charles swindoll

87. "Nothing is impossible, the word itself says: 'I am possible!'" -Audrey Hepburn

88. "No matter how slowly you go, as long as you don't stop". -Confucius

89. "When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the plane is taking off against the wind, not with it." -Henry Ford

90. "Many of us don't live our dreams because we live our fears." -less brown

91. "I've learned over the years that being determined will reduce your anxiety." -Rosenparks

92. "I failed the test. I only found 100 ways to get it wrong." -Benjamin Franklin

93. "If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask which seat! Just get in.” -Sheryl Sandberg

94. "I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took excuses." -Florence nightingale

95. "I'd rather die of passion than of boredom." -Vincent van Gogh

96. “If you look at what you have in life, you will always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you will never have enough." -Oprah Winfrey

97. "Dreaming is a form of planning, after all." -glory stone

98. "Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can attain." -Napoleon Hill

99. "First, have a clear and defined practical ideal; an aim, a goal. Second, have the necessary means to attain your ends: wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, direct all your means to that end out." -Aristotle

100. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed in the things you didn't do than in the things you did. So cast off, sail from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream, discover." -Mark Twain

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Editor's Note: This post was originally published in August 2018 and has been updated for completeness.