These memorable quotes will inspire you. Memorable, worth remembering, notable, or worth remembering or easily remembered, especially because of being special or unusual.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging memorable quotes, memorable sayings, and memorable proverbs.
Best Memorable Quotes
- “But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.” ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” ~ Maya Angelou
- “Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.” ~ Tom Clancy
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“I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.” ~ Dr. Seuss
- “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” ~ Maya Angelou
- “It’s not how long you live, but how you live that’s important. Therefore, don’t make your life just livable, make it memorable.” ~ Tony Robbins , Memorable quotes about life
- “Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.” ~ Gustave Flaubert
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“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” ~ Maya Angelou
- “You are not in business to be popular.” ~ Kirstie Alley
- “In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.” ~ Lauren Bacall
- “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” ~ Alice Walker
- “Fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.” ~ Oscar de la Renta
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“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.” ~ Margaret Fuller
- “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” ~ Amelia Earhart
- “Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Vasectomy means never having to say you’re sorry.” ~ Larry Adler
- “Brevity is the soul of wit.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.” ~ Cassandra Clare
- “I knew Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy.” ~ Lloyd Bentsen
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“Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.” ~ Joyce Brothers
- “Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.” ~ George Eliot
- “It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.” ~ Elizabeth Kenny
- “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.” ~ J. D. Salinger , Memorable quotes with friends
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“You can’t handle the truth!” ~ Jack Nicholson
- “If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!” ~ William Shakespeare
- “The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.” ~ Joyce Carol Oates
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“Being an American means never having to say you’re sorry.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
- “For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you’re sorry.” ~ William J. Bernstein
- “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.” ~ Federico Garcia Lorca
- “Avant-garde means never having to say you’re sorry.” ~ Marc Ribot
- “If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.” ~ Ben Elton , Memorable quotes about love
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“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “He could remember all about it now; the pitiful figure he must have cut; the absurd way in which he had gone and done the very thing he had so often agreed with himself in thinking would be the most foolish thing in the world; and had met with exactly the consequences which, in these wise moods, he had always foretold were certain to follow, if he ever did make such a fool of himself.” ~ Elizabeth Gaskell
- “It’s delicious to have people adore you, but it’s exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don’t match theirs.” ~ Tasha Alexander
- “A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!” ~ William Shakespeare
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“If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.” ~ Johnnie Cochran
- “The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, ‘Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?’ ‘Well, yes, I think I was,’ I reply.” ~ Lauren Bacall
- “I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people.” ~ Robin Williams
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“My salad days,
When I was green in judgment.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.” ~ Lauren Bacall
- “I am not a has-been. I am a will-be.” ~ Lauren Bacall
- “A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.” ~ Joyce Brothers
- “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” ~ Zelda Fitzgerald
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“Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.” ~ Rose Kennedy
- “I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.” ~ Joan Rivers
- “Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
- “Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.” ~ Barbara Walters
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“To err is human, but it feels divine.” ~ Mae West
- “Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.” ~ Dorothy Parker
- “Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.” ~ Erma Bombeck
- “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” ~ Mark Twain
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“His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.” ~ Dorothy Parker
- “You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to.” ~ Robin Williams
- “What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.” ~ Albert Einstein
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“A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.” ~ Albert Einstein
