I've always had an odd fascination with quotes. From the first Quotable Quotes I read in Reader's Digest to random quotes I've seen here and there, I have always admired and respected the people who can say such profound things.

Random Notable Quote Generator

Here's a sampling of some of my favorites:

You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

    -Mahatma Ghandi

The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of
limitations.

    -Celia Green

Silence is one of the hardest things to refute.

    -Josh Billings

The impossible is often the untried.

    -Jim Goodwin

Examine the contents, not the bottle.

    -The Talmud

I want to do it because I want to do it.

    -Amelia Earhart

Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.

    -Arabian proverb

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

    -Albert Einstein

The work will teach you how to do it.

    -Estonian proverb

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

    -Laurence Peter

The man who views the worlds at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

    -Muhammad Ali

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

    -Gloria Steinem

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

    -G. K. Chesterton

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

    -Coco Chanel

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

    -Teilhard de Chardin

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

    -Peter F. Drucker

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for.

    -Louis L’Amour

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.

    -Robert Orben

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!"

    -Bill Bradley

Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.

    -Robert Zend

The universe is made of stories, not atoms.

    -Muriel Rukeyser

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you second chances.

    -O. A. Battista

The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.

    -Robert Orben

You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him.

    -Robert C. Savage

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

    -Carl Sandburg

The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.

    -Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

    -Lillian Hellman

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

    -Cullen Hightower

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.

    -Paul Nitze

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

    -Rabindranath Tagore

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.

    -George Seaton

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

    -Isaac Asimov

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

    -Thomas J. Watson

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible--and achieve it, generation after generation.

    -Pearl S. Buck

Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

    -Helen Hayes

Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.

    -David J. Wolpe

The fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying.

    -Paul C. Roud

We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.

    -Winston Churchill

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

    -Kurt Vonnegut

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

    -Edmund Hillary

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is to be educated.

    -Edith Hamilton

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

    -Tobias Wolff

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

    -Cullen Hightower

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

    -G. K. Chesterton

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

    -Colin Powell

Each of us is given a pocketful of time to spend however we may. We use what we will. We waste what we will. But we can never get back a day.

    -Roger Wilcox

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

    -Neil Simon

Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people once a year.

    -Victor Borge

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

    -Malachy McCourt

The purpose of life is life.

    -Karl Lagerfeld

The future comes one day at a time.

    -Dean Acheson

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

    -Stanislaw Lec

To achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die.

    -Vauvenarges

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

    -Anonymous

People are not going to love you unless you love them.

    -Pat Carroll

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

    -Eva Young

Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.

    -Corita Kent

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

    -Josh Billings

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

    -Arthur Schopenhauer

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

    -Janis Joplin

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

    -Charles Cale Colton

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

    -Horace

This is not a dress rehearsal. This is *It*.

    -Tom Cunningham

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

    -Lech Walesa

The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands.

    -Carolyn Forche

God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich.

    -Wilfrid Sheed

Among my most cherished possessions are words that I have never spoken.

    -Orson Rega Card

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

    -Edith Sitwell

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

    -Geena Davis

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

    -Sydney J. Harris

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?

    -Frank Scully

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

    -John Morley

To believe with certainty, we must begin with doubting.

    -Stanislaus I

It's a lot better to hope than not to.

    -Benjamin J. Stein

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.

    -Anais Nin

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

    -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

    -Bertrand Russell

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf of springtime.

    -Martin Luther

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

    -Malcolm S. Forbes

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

    -George F. Will

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread that I broke with you was more than bread.

    -Conrad Aiken

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

    -Tom Stoppard

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.

    -Robert Frost

We are all mortal until that first kiss and the second glass of wine.

    -Eduardo Galeano

Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.

    -Libbie Fudium

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

    -Christopher Morley

There is no greater burden than great potential.

    -Charles M. Schulz

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

    -John Donne

Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.

    -Ruth E. Renkel

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

    -Michael Leboeuf

The imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling, and puttering.

    -Brenda Ueland

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

    -Jane Austen

The moment somebody says 'this is very risky' is the moment it becomes attractive to me.

    -Kate Capshaw

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

    -Anais Nin

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

    -Charles A. Beard

If it's a good idea . . . go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.

    -Grace M. Hopper

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

    -Marlene Dietrich

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

    -John Henry Cardinal Newman

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that fits all cases.

    -C. G. Jung

Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.

    -Marge Piercy

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.

    -Mark Twain

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

    -Bruce Barton

Love and sex? People will die for love.

    -Jeff Bezos

If you're going through hell, keep going.

    -Winston Churchill