These favorite quotes will inspire you. Favorite preferred before all others of the same kind or a person or thing that is especially popular or particularly well-liked by someone.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging favorite quotes, favorite sayings, and favorite proverbs.
Famous Favourite Quotes
- “The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” ~ Samuel Johnson
- “Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.” ~ Robert Fripp
- “I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.” ~ Victor Hugo
- “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
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“Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.” ~ Alan Moore
- “Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.” ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
- “Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.” ~ Samuel Johnson
- “It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.” ~ Mark Twain
- “What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.” ~ Oscar Levant
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“I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.” ~ Richard Lewis
- “I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.” ~ Woody Allen
- “A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.” ~ Baltasar Gracian
- “The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.” ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
- “What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.” ~ Sam Keen , Favorite quotes to live by
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“There’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no place to put it all.” ~ Robert Orben
- “Your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other.” ~ Edward R. Murrow
- “The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.” ~ Ayn Rand
- “Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.” ~ Mark Twain
- “I don’t necessarily agree with everything I say.” ~ Marshall McLuhan
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“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.” ~ Thomas R. Pickering
- “‘Someday’ is the day after you die.” ~ Steve Pavlina
- “A genius! For 37 years I’ve practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!” ~ Pablo de Sarasate
- “It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.” ~ Mark Twain
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“When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.” ~ Henny Youngman
- “After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, ‘No hablo ingles.'” ~ Ronnie Shakes
- “If there’s only one answer, then this must not be a very interesting topic.” ~ Ron Jeffries
- “It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.” ~ Ezra Pound
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“Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.” ~ Louise Lester
- “There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.” ~ Norman Mailer
- “Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.” ~ Bertrand Russell
- “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.” ~ Oscar Wilde
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“The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.” ~ George Will
- “The things you own end up owning you.” ~ Brad Pitt
- “Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.” ~ Marilyn Manson
- “Careful. We don’t want to learn from this.” ~ Bill Watterson
- “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.” ~ Albert Einstein
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“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.” ~ Ray Bradbury
- “Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we’ve been bombing over the years been complaining?” ~ George C. Wallace
- “A physicist is an atom’s way of knowing about atoms.” ~ George Wald
- “If the phone doesn’t ring, it’s me.” ~ Jimmy Buffett
- “Silence is so accurate.” ~ Mark Rothko
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“If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.” ~ Donald Rumsfeld
- “Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law” ~ Douglas Hofstadter
- “The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.” ~ B. F. Skinner
- “No wise man ever wished to be younger.” ~ Jonathan Swift
- “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” ~ Lily Tomlin
- “Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
- “The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.” ~ Calvin Trillin
- “In God we trust; all others bring data.” ~ W. Edwards Deming
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“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.” ~ Robert Frost
- “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” ~ Robert Frost
- “I’ve been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn’t require my presence.” ~ Garry Trudeau , Favorite quotes about life
- “Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.” ~ W. H. Auden
- “There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.” ~ Teresa of Avila
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“If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.” ~ Tallulah Bankhead
- “I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.” ~ Georges Duhamel
- “Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.” ~ Wernher von Braun
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“The less you know, the more you believe.” ~ Bono
- “The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.” ~ Charles Bukowski
- “Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.” ~ Alan Kay
Favorite one that is treated or regarded with special favor or liking.
