“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.”
William Shakespeare
CouragePerseverance
Best Quotes
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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.
“All that glisters is not gold.”
William Shakespeare
AppearancesWisdom
“There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.”
William Shakespeare
DestinyFaith
“The readiness is all.”
William Shakespeare
PreparationAcceptance
“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”
William Shakespeare
LeadershipResponsibility
“Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
BalancePerspective
“Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
BooksWisdom
“The days are ever divine.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
TodayGratitude
“The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward.”
Henry David Thoreau
MoneyIntegrity
“The swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.”
Henry David Thoreau
SimplicityTravel
“Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow.”
Mark Twain
HumorSorrow
“He that riseth late must trot all day.”
Benjamin Franklin
Early RisingDiscipline
“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”
Benjamin Franklin
EducationTalent
“He that won't be counselled, can't be helped.”
Benjamin Franklin
AdviceHumility
“The future is purchased by the present.”
Samuel Johnson
FutureAction
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
Francis Bacon
OpportunityInitiative
“Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.”
Francis Bacon
LearningBooks
“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
Alexander Pope
CautionWisdom
“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
WisdomKnowledge
“He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses his courage loses all.”
Miguel de Cervantes
CourageFriendship
“It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.”
Publilius Syrus
People-PleasingWisdom
“Greed oft o'erreaches itself.”
Aesop
GreedConsequences
“It is easy to propose impossible remedies.”
Aesop
ActionWisdom
“Everyone lives by selling something.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
WorkLife
“God bless Us, Every One!”
Charles Dickens
BlessingsKindness