Best Quotes

What makes a quote one of the best? It says in a sentence what most of us take a lifetime to learn. Here are 40 handpicked favorites — short, sharp and worth remembering — drawn from thinkers and writers across the ages. Whether you need a nudge, a comfort or a rallying cry, start here.

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. — Rumi
Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
Rumi
All of us do not have equal talent. But, all of us have an equal opportunity to develop our talents. — A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
All of us do not have equal talent. But, all of us have an equal opportunity to develop our talents.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. — Rumi
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.
Rumi
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. — Rabindranath Tagore
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.
Rabindranath Tagore
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. — Rabindranath Tagore
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Rabindranath Tagore
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. — Swami Vivekananda
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.
Swami Vivekananda
Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world. — Ramana Maharshi
Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
Ramana Maharshi
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. — Swami Sivananda
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Sivananda
Let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. — Kahlil Gibran
Let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Kahlil Gibran
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. — Rumi
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Rumi
Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck. — A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. — Kahlil Gibran
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran
With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. — Rumi
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
Rumi
My religion is humanitarianism, which is the basis of every religion in the world. — Abdul Sattar Edhi
My religion is humanitarianism, which is the basis of every religion in the world.
Abdul Sattar Edhi
If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact — not to be solved, but to be coped with over time. — Shimon Peres
If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact — not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.
Shimon Peres
Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. — Muhammad Yunus
Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations.
Muhammad Yunus
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. — Kahlil Gibran
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
Kahlil Gibran
Be realistic: plan for a miracle. — Osho
Be realistic: plan for a miracle.
Osho
Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny. — Mahatma Gandhi
Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. — Rumi
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.
Rumi
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. — Kahlil Gibran
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Kahlil Gibran
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence. — B.R. Ambedkar
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
B.R. Ambedkar
No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy. — Amartya Sen
No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.
Amartya Sen
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. — Gautama Buddha
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
Gautama Buddha
What you seek is seeking you. — Rumi
What you seek is seeking you.
Rumi
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. — Kahlil Gibran
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
Kahlil Gibran
Speak, for your lips are free; speak, your tongue is still your own. — Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Speak, for your lips are free; speak, your tongue is still your own.
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
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