Best Favorite Quotes On Success In Life

These favorite quotes will inspire you. Favorite preferred before all others of the same kind or a person or thing that is especially popular or particularly well-liked by someone.

A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging favorite quotes, favorite sayings, and favorite proverbs.

Famous Favourite Quotes

1. “The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” ~ Samuel Johnson
2. “Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.” ~ Robert Fripp
3. “I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.” ~ Victor Hugo
4. “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

5. “Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.” ~ Alan Moore

6. “Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.” ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
7. “Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.” ~ Samuel Johnson
8. “It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.” ~ Mark Twain
9. “What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.” ~ Oscar Levant

10. “I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.” ~ Richard Lewis

11. “I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.” ~ Woody Allen
12. “A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.” ~ Baltasar Gracian
13. “The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.” ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
14. “What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.” ~ Sam Keen , Favorite quotes to live by

15. “There’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no place to put it all.” ~ Robert Orben

16. “Your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other.” ~ Edward R. Murrow
17. “The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.” ~ Ayn Rand
18. “Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.” ~ Mark Twain
19. “I don’t necessarily agree with everything I say.” ~ Marshall McLuhan

20. “How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

21. “In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.” ~ Thomas R. Pickering
22. “‘Someday’ is the day after you die.” ~ Steve Pavlina
23. “A genius! For 37 years I’ve practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!” ~ Pablo de Sarasate
24. “It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.” ~ Mark Twain

25. “When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.” ~ Henny Youngman

26. “After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, ‘No hablo ingles.'” ~ Ronnie Shakes
27. “If there’s only one answer, then this must not be a very interesting topic.” ~ Ron Jeffries
28. “It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
29. “When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.” ~ Ezra Pound

30. “Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.” ~ Louise Lester

31. “There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.” ~ Norman Mailer
32. “Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.” ~ Albert Einstein
33. “If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.” ~ Bertrand Russell
34. “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.” ~ Oscar Wilde

35. “The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.” ~ George Will

36. “The things you own end up owning you.” ~ Brad Pitt
37. “Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.” ~ Marilyn Manson
38. “Careful. We don’t want to learn from this.” ~ Bill Watterson
39. “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.” ~ Albert Einstein

40. “You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.” ~ Ray Bradbury

41. “Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we’ve been bombing over the years been complaining?” ~ George C. Wallace
42. “A physicist is an atom’s way of knowing about atoms.” ~ George Wald
43. “If the phone doesn’t ring, it’s me.” ~ Jimmy Buffett
44. “Silence is so accurate.” ~ Mark Rothko

45. “If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.” ~ Donald Rumsfeld

46. “Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law” ~ Douglas Hofstadter
47. “The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.” ~ B. F. Skinner
48. “No wise man ever wished to be younger.” ~ Jonathan Swift
49. “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

50. “Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

51. “I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” ~ Lily Tomlin
52. “Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
53. “The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.” ~ Calvin Trillin
54. “In God we trust; all others bring data.” ~ W. Edwards Deming

55. “A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.” ~ Robert Frost

56. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” ~ Robert Frost
57. “I’ve been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn’t require my presence.” ~ Garry Trudeau , Favorite quotes about life
58. “Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.” ~ W. H. Auden
59. “There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.” ~ Teresa of Avila

60. “If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.” ~ Tallulah Bankhead

61. “I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.” ~ Georges Duhamel
62. “Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.” ~ Wernher von Braun

63. “The less you know, the more you believe.” ~ Bono

64. “The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.” ~ Charles Bukowski
65. “Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.” ~ Alan Kay

Favorite one that is treated or regarded with special favor or liking.

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