Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Orison Swett Marden

Orison Swett Marden

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A smile is a true life force, the only one capable of moving the immovable.

Orison Swett Marden

Orison Swett Marden

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Success is not achieved by celebrating victories but by overcoming failures.

Orison Swett Marden

Orison Swett Marden

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A pebble in the bed of a humble brook can change the course of a river.

Orison Swett Marden

Orison Swett Marden

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True science is far above political passions, racial and language differences, and religious sectarianism.

Orison Swett Marden

Orison Swett Marden

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A penny well spent is worth more than a penny saved.

Orison Swett Marden

Orison Swett Marden

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Luck is nothing more than the ability to take advantage of favorable opportunities.

Orison Swett Marden

Orison Swett Marden

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Economics consists of knowing how to spend, and savings consists of knowing how to save.

Orison Swett Marden

Orison Swett Marden

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I prefer to know how to appreciate what I cannot have, than to have what I am not capable of appreciating.

Antoni Marí

Antoni Marí

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I am what I am unaware that I am. I am everything that I don't know.

Maria Theresa I of Austria

Maria Theresa I of Austria

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A relative peace is worth more than a won war.

Julián Marías

Julián Marías

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What worries me the most is that in Spain everyone is asking: What is going to happen? Almost nobody is asking: What are we going to do?