English Quotes

“Nature does nothing in vain.” Aristotle

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“[Thou art] a disease that must be cut away.” William Shakespeare

“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.” Victor Hugo

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.” Aristotle

“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.” Laozi

“Genius: the superhuman in man.” Victor Hugo

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” Laozi

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Hope is a waking dream.” Aristotle

“The future influences the present just as much as the past.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.” Aristotle

“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.” Albert Einstein

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.” Laozi

“It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.” Aristotle

“In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“He who talks more is sooner exhausted.” Laozi

“Power trends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Lord Acton

“A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.” Victor Hugo

“As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.” Victor Hugo

“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.” Victor Hugo

“When anger rises, think of the consequences.” Confucius

“Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.” Victor Hugo

“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” Albert Einstein

“Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.” Victor Hugo

“Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.” Victor Hugo

“The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music.” Unknown

“The only source of knowledge is experience.” Albert Einstein

“Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.” Victor Hugo

“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.” Aristotle

“There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.” Victor Hugo

“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?” Friedrich Nietzsche

“In music the passions enjoy themselves.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.” Victor Hugo

“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.” Victor Hugo

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” Viktor E. Frankl

“We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.” Aristotle

“Obsessed is a word the lazy use to describe the Dedicated.” Unknown

“Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.” Victor Hugo

“A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Become so successful in what you do that people know of your accomplishments before they know your name.” Neil Patel

“Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Sometimes all you have to do is forget what you feel and remember what you deserve.” Anonymous

“And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.” Victor Hugo

“All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.” Sunzi

“What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.” Victor Hugo

“An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Success is going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill

“The focus should not be on talking. Talk is cheap. It must be on action.” Howard Berman

“The more you talk – the less likely you are to execute.” Susan Jones

“Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'” Friedrich Nietzsche

“What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.” Confucius

“Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Taste is the common sense of genius.” Victor Hugo

“Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.” Victor Hugo

“Give a man a match, and he'll be warm for a minute, but set him on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.” Unknown

“Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.” Alexander McQueen

“Hire character. Train skill.” Peter Schutz

“The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.” Victor Hugo

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” Victor Hugo

“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.” Aristotle

“There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.” Aristotle

“Shake off this erroneous notion life is there & u're just gonna live in it, vs embrace it, change it, improve it, make ur mark upon it.” Steve Jobs

“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.” Henry Ward Beecher

“Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Lots of com downsized. Our belief was if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they'd keep their wallets open” Steve Jobs

“Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?” Victor Hugo

“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.” William Shakespeare

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” Aristotle

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.” Sunzi

“If you think things can't get worse it's probably only because you lack sufficient imagination.” Unknown

“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.” Aristotle

“It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be.” Paul Arden

“In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.” Victor Hugo

“It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.” Victor Hugo

“Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.” Victor Hugo

“God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.” Albert Einstein

“I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.” Donald Trump

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Everything's impossible until somebody does it.” Bruce Wayne

“Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“The price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.” Frank Lloyd Wright

“An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.” Laozi

“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.” Aristotle

“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.” Victor Hugo

“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.” Aristotle

“Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.” Laozi

“Willingness yields much more results than comfort and encouragement. Be willing, do not wait to be pushed and your results will improve.” Frank Matobo

“Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.” Victor Hugo

“Someone else's happiness is confirmation that you can be happy too.” Aidi Mesa

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” Mahatma Gandhi

“If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.” Sunzi

“Don't punk out and don't quit.” Ben Horowitz

“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.” Aristotle

“Awareness without action is worthless.” Phil McGraw

“All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.” Laozi

“From caring comes courage.” Laozi

“He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.” Aristotle

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” Aristotle

“Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.” Laozi

“He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.” Laozi

“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” Victor Hugo

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” Aristotle

“Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.” Aristotle