“All's well that ends well.”
William Shakespeare
EndingsHope
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Best Quotes
Read 200 of the best quotes about doing your best, the best things in life and bringing out the best in yourself, from Aristotle, Shakespeare, Emerson and more.
“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PerspectiveCharacter
“Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
LearningHumility
“I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.”
Henry David Thoreau
InnocenceWisdom
“Always respect your superiors, if you have any.”
Mark Twain
FunnyConfidence
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
Oscar Wilde
BooksTruth
“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
Benjamin Franklin
LearningHumility
“Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.”
Benjamin Franklin
WealthEnjoyment
“When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.”
Benjamin Franklin
GratitudeValue
“Haste makes waste.”
Benjamin Franklin
PatienceWisdom
“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
Samuel Johnson
IntegrityKnowledge
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
Francis Bacon
BooksReading
“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
CriticismWisdom
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast.”
Alexander Pope
HopeHuman Nature
“There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.”
Charles Dickens
TruthHonesty
“Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
Jane Austen
PrideVanity
“He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
HomeHappiness
“Life is a great bundle of little things.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
LifeSmall Things
“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
PerseveranceSuccess
“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”
Thomas Carlyle
LoveKnowledge
“Practical wisdom is only to be learnt in the school of experience.”
Samuel Smiles
ExperienceWisdom
“It is easy to despise what you cannot get.”
Aesop
EnvyHuman Nature
“A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.”
Aesop
HonestyTrust
“Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
ProgressLife
“They also serve who only stand and wait.”
John Milton
PatienceFaith