These number quotes will inspire you. A number is a mathematical object used to count, measure, and label.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging number quotes, number sayings, and number proverbs.
Best Number Quotes
- “Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.” Joan Collins
- “Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.” Samuel Ullman
- “To be number one, you must train like you are number two.” Maurice Greene
- “Loneliness is different than isolation and solitude. Loneliness is a subjective feeling where the connections we need are greater than the connections we have. In the gap, we experience loneliness. It’s distinct from the objective state of isolation, which is determined by the number of people around you.” Vivek Murthy
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“I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.” Neil Armstrong
- “I’d been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.” Scott Anderson
- “I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.” Summer Altice
- “I faced a number of challenges whilst I built Biocon. Initially, I had credibility challenges where I couldn’t get banks to fund me; I couldn’t recruit people to work for a woman boss. Even in the businesses where I had to procure raw materials, they didn’t want to deal with women.” Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
- “The number one rule of fishing is be quiet. Don’t scare the fish!” Carole Radziwill
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“The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.” Robert Louis Stevenson
- “Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.” Alfred North Whitehead
- “Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three, you’ve got to squeeze your buns. That’s my formula.” Richard Simmons
- “The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don’t want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face.” John Paul DeJoria
- “There are an endless number of things to discover about robotics. A lot of it is just too fantastic for people to believe.” Daniel H. Wilson
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“Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.” Vernon Howard
- “The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.” Steve Ballmer
- “Cinema is a reflection of society and, in most cases, has the ability to be a mirror and not just show the problems but also give solutions and help them reach a large number of people through faces and voices that matter.” Kirti Kulhari
- “Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that’s a good thing.” Bernie Sanders
- “We are bombarded on all sides by a vast number of messages we don’t want or need. More information is generated in a single day than we can absorb in a lifetime. To fully enjoy life, all of us must find our own breathing space and peace of mind.” James E. Faust
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“Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.” Robert H. Schuller
- “God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.” Bill Watterson
- “Strangely enough, when the Sugababes’ ‘Freak Like Me’ went to number 1, which was built around my ‘Are ‘Friends’ Electric’ song, I had another song called ‘Rip’ go to number 1 in the Kerrang TV chart, so I was pulling new people in from very different areas of musical interest. That was quite an amazing week”. Gary Numan
- “Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That’s why, to be an editor, you have to be a reader. It’s the number one qualification.” Robert Gottlieb
- “I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.” Tom Hopkins
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“I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you’re in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.” Bob Barker
- “Miscommunication is the number one cause of all problems; communication is your bridge to other people. Without it, there’s nothing. So when it’s damaged, you have to solve all these problems it creates.” Earl Sweatshirt
- “In terms of playing ability there is nothing to choose between number one and 100. Instead, it’s a question of who believes and who wants it more? Which player is mentally stronger? Which player is going to fight the hardest in the big points? These are the things that determine who is the champion.” Novak Djokovic
- “Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.” Madhuri Dixit
- “Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentially, and this includes low income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, the unemployed, the homeless, and a range of people who are viewed as a liability to capital and its endless predatory quest for power and profits.” Henry Giroux
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“Unless you are aggressive, you will never become number one.” Sonali Bendre
- “You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.” Gustave Flaubert
- “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” Henry David Thoreau
- “You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‘Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.” Joel Osteen
- “The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.” Helen Fisher
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“It is hard to be number one, and it is even harder to stay there because everyone is trying to knock you off the top.” Allan McNish
- “Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.” Brandon Lee
- “The number 143 means ‘I love you.’ It takes one letter to say ‘I’ and four letters to say ‘love’ and three letters to say ‘you.’ One hundred and forty-three. ‘I love you.’ Isn’t that wonderful?” Fred Rogers , Number quotes love
- “The most important factors for a long life, I think, are partly in the genes; number two is lifestyle, which includes healthy diet and regular exercise. I walk, run and swim every day. However, I think too much exercise is also unhealthy because of over-stress; sometimes people who exercise too many hours per day die early.” John Gokongwei
- “The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don’t improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant.” Indra Nooyi
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“Our farmers feed the world. They are up before dawn and work till well after sunset. They face any number of challenges they can’t control, from too much rain to not enough, from disease to insect infestations.” Luther Strange
- “A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.” Sigmund Freud
- “Look out for Number One. If you don’t, no one else will.” Arnold Rothstein
- “Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business – I’d say, number one is have a high pain threshold.” Elon Musk , Number quotes in business
- “You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I’m party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father.” Pierce Brosnan
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“The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.” Jimmy Breslin
- “In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means waiting. It is like the number nine, a muddy color.” Sandra Cisneros
- “Our problem right now is that we’re so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there’s a little utopia.” Margaret Atwood
- “My daughter is my number one fan. She has always been incredibly supportive, and she tells like it is and how it is.” Luis Fonsi
- “Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.” Bill Bradley
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“Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don’t hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.” Billy Sunday
- “It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.” Jeremy Bentham
- “I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.” Neil Armstrong
- “I’m nutty bunny number two. I love me and I love you.” Mark McKinney
- “Don’t believe the hype. I don’t care how many number ones you have at the box office, I don’t care how much they say you’re great, don’t believe it. Just stay in your lane and do what you’re supposed to do.” Tyler Perry
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“Number one, cash is king… number two, communicate… number three, buy or bury the competition.” Jack Welch
- “Sometimes I can’t believe I’m going to be 60. I always say there’s no point moaning about getting older, when there’s nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find it quite funny. I look at that number, 60, and I think, ‘Really? Me?’ ” Twiggy
- “The number of cells in our bodies is defined by an equilibrium of opposing forces: mitosis adds cells, while programmed cell death removes them. Just as too much cell division can lead to a pathological increase in cell number, so can too little cell death.” H. Robert Horvitz
- “There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.” P. J. O’Rourke
- “NATO was built to counteract the Soviet Union in its day and time. At this point there is no threat coming from the Soviet Union, because there is no Soviet Union anymore. And where there was the Soviet Union once, there is now a number of countries, among them the new and democratic Russia.” Vladimir Putin
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“The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.” Terry Pratchett
- “Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.” William Bernbach
- “For just a few dollars a dose, vaccines save lives and help reduce poverty. Unlike medical treatment, they provide a lifetime of protection from deadly and debilitating disease. They are safe and effective. They cut healthcare and treatment costs, reduce the number of hospital visits, and ensure healthier children, families and communities.” Seth Berkley
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“The glamorous side is SUVs, but frankly, the tractor side is where we are number one in the world.” Anand Mahindra
- “Last time I was in London, I visited Number 5, Bruton Street, which is the address I gave to Violet Bridgerton, the matriarch of the Bridgerton clan in my novels. It was a bit disconcerting to learn that it’s actually a pub.” Julia Quinn
- “Broccoli is not as bad as people make out. It might give you wind, but I’d prefer to have wind and have good health. Health is the number one thing on the planet. However, I am quite partial to rum and raisin ice cream.” Chris Eubank Sr.
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