The fear of death follows from the fear of life. Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. It is always darkest just before the dawn. The other is as though everything is a miracle. There are only two ways to live your life. Voltaire “īelieve you can and you’re halfway there. With great power comes great responsibility. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. Albert Einsteinĭarkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Imagination is more important than knowledge. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. St Augustine “Īn eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. Socrates “īetter to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
If you want something done right, do it yourself. Mahatma Gandhi “ĭon’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Albert Einstein “īetter to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity. That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
So if you have a contribution, feel free to add it in the comments below.īut for now, enough chit chat.
I’ll update this list with new quotes if people think I missed a good one. Mark Twain, Einstein, Benjamin Franklin… But there are a few I didn’t expect as well. Many famous quotes have uncertain origins, and this site helped me approximate the proper source when it was unclear.Ī lot of the usual characters are here. This was helpful in finding popular quotes by specific authors if I knew that there was a lot of interest in a specific person. There are a few different sites that allow users to “vote” on quotes, such as. I used a few different sources to decide which quotes should make the cut, but mostly I relied on publicly available search data.īasically, if lots of people are searching for a quote, it’s probably pretty popular.
And below we have some of the best, most quotable quotes ever uttered. What makes a quote so popular that it endures year after year, finding itself again and again on the inside of dust jackets in every book store across America?Īs the editor of this site, I come across some of the same quotes over and over again.īut I don’t mind… Some quotes are just plain awesome. Unfortunately, however, there’s currently no way to export my quotes or otherwise retain ownership of the data.These quotes are the all time favorites. At first, Quotiki seemed like a perfect fit. Now I feel I need a similar solution for my quotes - having a long flat list isn’t working very well anymore.
(Call me paranoid, but I don’t feel comfortable relying entirely on a third party to hold years of data, no matter how much I like their service.) Now my bookmarks are online at, tagged and fully searchable - and I still have ways to own the data. The problem was eventually solved not by tidying them up regularly, but by the smart use of tagging and searching technology. Cleaning and categorizing those bookmarks was both time-consuming and inefficient. Even being extremely conservative about adding them, after years they inevitably started adding up to the point of being unmanageable. Years ago, I faced the same situation with my browser bookmarks. However - judging from the number of quotes I find on the web on a daily basis - I can only expect it to grow even faster than before.
Nowadays, I’m much more demanding about which quotes to add to my collection.
Help! How to Better Manage my Unwieldy Collection of Quotes?Īfter I first published my favorite quotes collection (along with its companion article 5 Reasons to Collect Favorite Quotes), it grew faster than ever from 400 to over 500 quotes.