Motivational and Inspirational Quotes Collection

When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly. - Michel de Montaigne

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. - Amos Bronson Alcott

The maxims of men disclose their hearts. - French Proverb

To select well among old things, is almost equal to inventing new ones. - Nicholas Charles Trublet

I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is my own. -
Michel de Montaigne

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind. - William R. Alger

What gems of painting or statuary are in the world of art, or what flowers are in the world of nature, are gems of thought to the cultivated and the thinking. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own. -
Peter Anderson

A short saying oft contains much wisdom. - Sophocles

It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book. - Vicesimus Knox

A collection of rare thoughts is nothing less than a cabinet of intellectual gems.- William B. Sprague

It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us. -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great truths are portions of the soul of man;
Great souls are portions of eternity. - James Russell Lowell

Good sayings are like pearls strung together. - Chinese Proverb

A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. - Arabic Proverb

Proverbs are the cream of a nation's thought. - Unknown

There is not less wit, not less invention, in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that book. - Pierre Boyle

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will. - Joseph Joubert

It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what glorious height we have at last reached. -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time is of of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago. - Samuel Smiles

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom. -
Joseph Joubert

Human success is a quotation from overhead. - Charles H. Parkhurst

A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time. -
Bernard de Bovier de Fontenelle

A proverb is the child of experience. - Old Saying

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations. - Sir J. Mackintosh

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind, than in the one where they sprung up. -
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold. - Tryon Edwards

sad quotes

You never know what you have until you lose it.

"It's funny how a person can break your heart, and you can still love them with all the little pieces"

"When you left, I lost a part of me"

"A million words would not bring you back, I know because I tried, neither would a million tears, I know because I cried"

My heart was taken by you, broken by you, and now it is in pieces because of you.

If you love me like you told me, please be careful with my heart; you can take it; just don't break it or my world will fall apart.

Don't cry over anyone who won't cry over you.

"The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love someone else"

"If you love me, let me know. If not, please gently let me go"

"My heart was taken by you, broken by you and now it's in pieces because of you"

"I hate this feeling, it's one I know all to well, it's a thing called heartbreak and it hurts like hell"

"How could an angel break me heart?"

"Listen to your heart before you tell him goodbye"

"Tears are words the hard can't express"

"Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime"

"Sometimes the memories are worth the pain"

"Everytime we talk, I fall a little harder"

"You never were and you never will be mine"

"Love is like heaven but can hurt like hell"

"My heart bleeds no more since turning to stone"

"You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it"

"When I see you smile and know that its not for me, that's when I miss you the most"

"You never know what you have until its gone"

"The times we were happy together are worth the times I cry alone"

"Take a look at me now, cause there's just an empty space. And you coming back to me is against all odds and that's what I've got to face." - Phil Collins

"This is a song for the lonely, can you hear me tonight? For the broken hearted, battle scarred I'll be by your side. - Cher

friendship quotes

If only one star would fall every time I miss you, then all the stars in heaven would be gone.
Don't wonder if there are no stars tonight! It's your fault coz you made me miss you a lot.


When all swn't really know what to do
Look inside your heart and see
There in a special place, I will be




If someone would ask me what a beautiful life means, I would lean my head on your shoulder and hold you close to me and answer with a smile: "Like this!"




True love is hard to find, special one, one of a kind. I know because it appeared to me on a strange day I met you.



If a raindrop would mean ... I love you and you would ask me how much I love you, i bet you that it would …. rain all day!

peace quotes

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
William Shakespeare

A people free to choose will always choose peace.
Ronald Reagan

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mohandas Gandhi

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Benjamin Franklin

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
Irving Babbitt

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Benjamin Franklin

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
Muhammad Ali

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.
Georges Clemenceau

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon Bonaparte

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
John F. Kennedy

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
Andre Gide

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
Thomas Fuller

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.
David Borenstein

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa