Wednesday, October 20, 2010

The Best Quotes of All Time

What are the best quotes of all time for you? Have you ever heard a simple line that inspired you to make a major change in your life? Has a quote ever changed your mind on an important issue or made you think about something in a different way? Do you just enjoy reading daily quotes, seeking a smile or a bit of motivation?

Everyone’s choices for the best quotes of all time will vary based on what influences them. But we’ve looked through hundreds of quotes and picked some of the best quotes of all time across several different categories to share with you here today. Enjoy them below, and if another quote didn’t make the list but you absolutely love it, please share it with us in the comments.

Please note: Categories are listed alphabetically, and within each category individual quotes are in no particular order. Some quotes have been shared with multiple versions on the Web with slight variations in each. If we ran into these situations, we chose the variation that appeared to be most commonly presented. Also, some quotes could technically fall under multiple categories. In those cases they were placed under the one we felt was most relevant at the time.

Age

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on age:

“The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”

- Lucille Ball

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”

- Henry Ford

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

- George Bernard Shaw

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”

- Mark Twain

“No one is so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”

- Henry David Thoreau

“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.”

- Victor Hugo

“The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.”

- Oscar Wilde

“Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”

- Benjamin Franklin

“Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you.”

- Ogden Nash

“You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.”

- Bob Hope


Change

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on change:

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

- Gandhi

“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”

- Oprah Winfrey

“The only thing constant in life is change.”

- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.”

- Harold Wilson

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

- George Bernard Shaw

“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.”

- Jacob M. Braude

“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

- Charles Darwin

“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.”

- Confucius

“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.”

- Denis Waitley

Money

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on money:

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

- Mark Twain

“I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.”

- Warren Buffet

“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.”

- Robert Frost

“Money won’t create success. The freedom to make it will.”

- Nelson Mandela

“Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.”

- Zig Ziglar

“Time is money.”

- Benjamin Franklin

“If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.”

- Katherine Hepburn

“It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.”

- Logan Pearsall Smith

“The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.”

- Edith Wharton

“I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself – in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.”

- Henry Ford

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