Greatest Quotes Ever

Quotes give us a totally new point of view on every single thing in our lives. Quotes from famous people not only teach us and educate us, but also help us learn from our mistakes and motivate us to lead our lives well. Some quotes make us laugh, and they also help us in dealing with our emotions. There are many quotes that suit every occasion. They not only entertain us by making us laugh, but they also tell us about certain harsh realities which we at times tend to push under the carpet. Several quotes are well-liked sounds-bites and truism’s today. Surf through the different greatest quotes ever that are celebrated and well-known and use them to your good judgement and add a touch of zing and zest in your oral communication. To know more about the greatest quotes ever on an assortment of subjects, go through the sections that follow.

Greatest Quotes Of All Times

Quotes On Life

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it. - Albert Einstein
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, and to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.- George Bernard Shaw

Quotes On Advice

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even though many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.- Phillip Brooks
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. - Hunter Thompson
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. - Saul Bellow

Motivational Quotes

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually- Stephen Covey
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value. - Stephen Covey
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn- Harriet Stowe

Quotes On Love

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. - William Maugham
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out. - Roy Croft
Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other. - Walter Lippmann

Quotes On Friendship

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.- William Shakespeare
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all. - C.S. Lewis

Quotes On Work

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas A. Edison
We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade? - Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days. - Albert Einstein

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