Important-Quotes-collections
Intro
This is a collection of the all quotes that benefits my life. I hope you will get inspired Too!
Pigtt
Dreams are my reality, not yours.
Invention comes from necessity, Creation comes from money.
Robert Frost
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Daniel Carnegie
Don’t criticize, condemn, or complain
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Save someone’s face once and your influence with him rises. Save his face every time you can, and there is practically nothing he won’t do for you.
Steve Jobs
Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
George Orwell
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.” — 1984
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” — 1984
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” — 1984
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” — Animal Farm
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” — 1984
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.”
René Descartes
“I think, therefore I am.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
“I have a dream.”
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
William Shakespeare
“To be, or not to be, that is the question.”
Socrates
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
Lao Tzu
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
Edmund Burke
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Winston Churchill
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
George Eliot
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
李白 (Li Bai)
“举杯邀明月,对影成三人。”
— 《月下独酌》
“I lift my cup to invite the bright moon, and, together with my shadow, we become three people.”“白日依山尽,黄河入海流。”
— 《早发白帝城》
“The white sun sets behind the mountains, and the Yellow River flows into the sea.”“床前明月光,疑是地上霜。”
— 《静夜思》
“The bright moonlight before my bed, I suspect it is frost on the ground.”
王维 (Wang Wei)
“空山不见人,但闻人语响。”
— 《鹿柴》
“In the empty mountain, no one is seen, but the sound of human voices is heard.”“独在异乡为异客,每逢佳节倍思亲。”
— 《九月九日忆山东兄弟》
“Alone in a foreign land, I am a stranger; every time a festival comes, I think more of my family.”“空山新雨后,天气晚来秋。”
— 《山居秋暝》
“After the new rain in the empty mountain, the weather turns to autumn in the evening.”
杜甫 (Du Fu)
“国破山河在,城春草木深。”
— 《春望》
“The country is broken, though the mountains and rivers remain; in the city, spring has come, but the flowers are few.”“无边落木萧萧下,不尽长江滚滚来。”
— 《登高》
“Endless fallen leaves rustle down, the endless Yangtze River rolls on.”
李清照 (Li Qingzhao)
“花自飘零水自流,一种相思,两处闲愁。”
— 《如梦令》
“The flowers fall on their own, the water flows on its own; a kind of longing, two places of idle sorrow.”“昨夜雨疏风骤,浓睡不消残酒。”
— 《如梦令》
“Last night, the rain was sparse and the wind was strong; deep sleep couldn’t dispel the lingering wine.”“生当作人杰,死亦为鬼雄。”
— 《南乡子·登京口北固亭怀古》
“Live to be a hero among men, die to be a hero among ghosts.”
苏轼 (Su Shi)
“大江东去,浪淘尽,千古风流人物。”
— 《念奴娇·赤壁怀古》
“The great river flows eastward, the waves wash away the heroes of the past.”“明月几时有?把酒问青天。”
— 《水调歌头》
“When will the bright moon appear? I raise my cup to ask the clear sky.”
白居易 (Bai Juyi)
“同是天涯沦落人,相逢何必曾相识。”
— 《琵琶行》
“We are both people who have fallen to the ends of the earth; why must we have met before?”“我见青山多妩媚,料青山见我应如是。”
— 《赋得古原草送别》
“I see the green mountains are so charming; I believe the green mountains see me as such.”
李商隐 (Li Shangyin)
“春蚕到死丝方尽,蜡炬成灰泪始干。”
— 《无题》
“The silkworms spin silk until they die, the candle burns to ash before the tears dry.”“相见时难别亦难,东风无力百花残。”
— 《无题》
“Meeting is hard, parting is also hard; the east wind is powerless, and the hundred flowers are withered.”
王昌龄 (Wang Changling)
“金戈铁马,气吞万里如虎。”
— 《从军行》
“Golden spears and iron horses, the air swallows ten thousand miles like a tiger.”“劝君更尽一杯酒,西出阳关无故人。”
— 《送别》
“I urge you to drink one more cup; beyond the Yangguan Pass, there are no old friends.”
张九龄 (Zhang Jiuling)
“海上生明月,天涯共此时。”
— 《望月怀远》
“The bright moon rises over the sea, and at this moment, all over the world, people share the same moon.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
— Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Mahatma Gandhi
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
— Attributed
Nelson Mandela
“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.”
— Speech at the Rivonia Trial
Albert Einstein
“The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.”
— Letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Rosa Parks
“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.”
— Interview with NPR
Malcolm X
“If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything.”
— Speech at the Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity
Emma Goldman
“If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.”
— Attributed
James Baldwin
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
— As quoted in ‘The Price of the Ticket’
Audre Lorde
“Your silence will not protect you.”
— The Cancer Journals
Howard Zinn
“You can’t be neutral on a moving train.”
— You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train