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841 authors, from Stoic emperors to living novelists. Each page collects their quotes alongside a short biography, so a line you like comes with the life that produced it.
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- "A Chapter of Definitions1 quote
- "A Hundred Thoughts1 quote
- A. A. Milne1 quote
- A. Bronson Alcott1 quote
- A. D. Gordon1 quote
- Abraham Cowley1 quote
Abraham LincolnPresident of the United States from 1861 to 1865 · 1809–1865 · 5- Abraham Maslow1 quote
- Abu Bakr1 quote
- Adolf Wolff3 quotes
AesopAncient Greek storyteller · 620 BC–564 BC · 31- African Proverb2 quotes
Agatha ChristieEnglish mystery and detective writer · 1890–1976 · 30- Ai Weiwei1 quote
- Alan Alda1 quote
Albert CamusFrench philosopher and writer · 1913–1960 · 33
Albert EinsteinGerman-born theoretical physicist · 1879–1955 · 17
Albert SchweitzerGerman polymath · 1875–1965 · 6
Aldous HuxleyEnglish writer and philosopher · 1894–1963 · 31- Aleister Crowley1 quote
Alexander PopeEnglish poet · 1688–1744 · 3- Alexander Smith1 quote
- Alexander the Great1 quote
Alexandre DumasFrench writer and dramatist · 1802–1870 · 33- Alfred Austin1 quote
- Alfred de Musset4 quotes
Alfred Lord TennysonBritish Poet Laureate · 1809–1892 · 29- Ali ibn Abi Talib1 quote
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth1 quote
- Allen Klein1 quote
- Althea H. Warren1 quote
- Althea Warren2 quotes
- Alwyn M. Thurber2 quotes
Ambrose BierceAmerican writer · 1842–1914 · 3- Amelia E. Huddleston Barr1 quote
Amelia EarhartAmerican aviation pioneer · 1897–1939 · 31- Amy Bloom1 quote
- Amy Levy1 quote
Anatole FranceFrench author and journalist · 1844–1924 · 4- Andre Maurois1 quote
- Andrea Gibson1 quote
Andrew CarnegieAmerican industrialist and philanthropist · 1835–1919 · 32- Andrew Lang1 quote
- Andrew Murray1 quote
- Andy Dick1 quote
- Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius1 quote
- Anita Vivanti Chartres1 quote
- Anne Campbell1 quote
- Anne Cope1 quote
Anne FrankGerman-born diarist and Holocaust victim · 1929–1945 · 31- Anthony Liccione1 quote
Antoine de Saint ExupéryFrench writer and aviator · 1900–1944 · 1- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry2 quotes
Anton ChekhovRussian dramatist and author · 1860–1904 · 32- Antonio PorchiaArgentine aphorist · 1885–1968 · 5
ArchimedesGreek mathematician and physicist · 287 BC–212 BC · 26- Arianna Huffington1 quote
AristophanesClassical Athenian comic playwright · 448 BC–386 BC · 1
AristotleAncient Greek philosopher and polymath · 384 BC–322 BC · 9- Armistead Maupin1 quote
- Arnold Bennett5 quotes
- Arnold H. GlasowAmerican humorist and aphorist · 3
Arnold SchwarzeneggerAustrian and American bodybuilder, actor and politician · b. 1947 · 31- Arthur Ashe1 quote
- Arthur Golden1 quote
- Arthur Guiterman5 quotes
- Arthur Helps2 quotes
- Arthur Rubinstein1 quote
Arthur SchopenhauerGerman philosopher · 1788–1860 · 35- Arthur Upson2 quotes
- Ashley Montagu1 quote
Audrey HepburnBritish actress · 1929–1993 · 1- Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare5 quotes
- Austin O'Malley2 quotes
- Author unknown4 quotes
Ayn RandRussian-American philosopher · 1905–1982 · 5
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- B. F. Skinner2 quotes
Barack ObamaPresident of the United States from 2009 to 2017 · b. 1961 · 1- Barbara Bush1 quote
- Barbra Ring3 quotes
- Barbra Streisand1 quote
- Barry Fox Stevens1 quote
Baruch SpinozaPortuguese-Dutch philosopher · 1632–1677 · 29- Bayard Taylor1 quote
- Ben Hecht2 quotes
Benjamin DisraeliPrime Minister of the United Kingdom · 1804–1881 · 8
Benjamin FranklinAmerican Founding Father and polymath · 1706–1790 · 8- Benjamin Paul Blood1 quote
- Bennett Cerf1 quote
- Bernard Meltzer2 quotes
Bernard ShawIrish playwright, critic, and polemicist · 1856–1950 · 6- Bernard Williams1 quote
- Bertolt Brecht1 quote
Bertrand RussellEnglish philosopher and logician · 1872–1970 · 40- Bessie Anderson Stanley1 quote
- Bette Davis1 quote
- Betty White1 quote
- Beverly Chew1 quote
- Beverly Sills1 quote
- Bil Keane1 quote
- Bill Cosby1 quote
Bill GatesAmerican businessman and philanthropist · b. 1955 · 31- Bill Moyers1 quote
- Bill of Divorcement1 quote
- Bill Russell1 quote
- Bill Vaughan1 quote
Blaise PascalFrench polymath · 1623–1662 · 31- Blake Mycoskie1 quote
Bob MarleyJamaican reggae musician · 1945–1981 · 29- Booth Tarkington1 quote
- Bram Stoker1 quote
- Brendan Gill1 quote
- Brian Koslow1 quote
- Bryan Clay1 quote
- Burton E. Stevenson2 quotes
- Byron Caldwell Smith1 quote
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- C. C. Colton1 quote
- C. Nestell Bovee1 quote
C. S. LewisBritish writer, lay theologian, and scholar · 1898–1963 · 4- Caitlyn Jenner1 quote
- Camryn Manheim1 quote
- Carl JungSwiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist · 1875–1961 · 31
Carl SandburgAmerican writer and editor · 1878–1967 · 1- Carl von Clausewitz1 quote
Carlos Ruiz ZafónSpanish novelist · 1964–2020 · 4- Cassandra Clare1 quote
- Chanakya2 quotes
Charles DickensEnglish writer and journalist · 1812–1870 · 4- Charles Eastman1 quote
- Charles Edwards1 quote
- Charles F. Raymond3 quotes
- Charles Gibbon1 quote
- Charles Hanson Towne1 quote
- Charles Kingsley1 quote
- Charles Lanman1 quote
- Charles Lee2 quotes
- Charles Lindbergh1 quote
- Charles Mackay1 quote
- Charles R. Ballard1 quote
- Charles R. Swindoll2 quotes
- Charles Searle1 quote
- Charles Wagner1 quote
- Charles Washington Coleman2 quotes
Charlie ChaplinEnglish actor and filmmaker · 1889–1977 · 1- Charlie Sheen1 quote
- Charlotte Turner Smith1 quote
- Chasing Yesterday1 quote
- Chicago Herald1 quote
- Chinese proverb2 quotes
- Christian Nestell Bovee1 quote
Christopher MarloweEnglish playwright and poet · 1564–1593 · 30- Christopher Morley6 quotes
- Christopher Reeve1 quote
- Chuck Norris1 quote
- Cid Ricketts Sumner5 quotes
- Claude Tillier1 quote
- Claudia Black1 quote
- Clyde Fitch1 quote
Colin PowellAmerican U.S. Army general and diplomat · 1937–2021 · 2- Colley Cibber1 quote
ConfuciusChinese philosopher · 552 BC–479 BC · 3
Corrie Ten BoomDutch resistance hero and writer · 1892–1983 · 3- Coulson Kernahan1 quote
- Criminal Minds1 quote
- Cuba Gooding, Jr.1 quote
- Cyril Connolly2 quotes
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- Dag Hammarskjold1 quote
Dag HammarskjöldUN Secretary-General from 1953 to 1961 · 1905–1961 · 2
Dalai LamaSpiritual leader of Tibet since 1940 · b. 1935 · 31- Daniel1 quote
- Daniel Webster2 quotes
- Dave Ramsey1 quote
- David Brinkley1 quote
- David Byrne1 quote
- David C. Hill2 quotes
- David Frost1 quote
- David Grayson1 quote
- David Harris Russell1 quote
David HumeScottish philosopher, historian, economist and essayist · 1711–1776 · 31- David Lodge1 quote
- David Starr Jordan1 quote
- Delta Burke1 quote
- Demi Lovato1 quote
- Democritus1 quote
Denis DiderotFrench philosopher and writer · 1713–1784 · 2- Denis Waitley4 quotes
- Dennis P. Costea1 quote
Denzel WashingtonAmerican actor · b. 1954 · 31
Desmond TutuSouth African bishop and anti-apartheid activist · 1931–2021 · 31- Detlef Cordes1 quote
- Diane Nash1 quote
- Diane Sawyer1 quote
- Dickinson1 quote
- Didier D'haese1 quote
- Diego Marchi1 quote
- Dinah Maria Craik1 quote
Diogenes4th-century BC Greek Cynic philosopher · 412 BC–323 BC · 31
Don MarquisAmerican newspaper columnist and humorist · 1878–1937 · 2- Don Shula2 quotes
- Donald Brophy1 quote
- Donald Hall1 quote
- Donald Trump1 quote
- Dorothe Bendon1 quote
- Dorothy Parker1 quote
- Dorothy Scarborough2 quotes
- Douglas Adams1 quote
- Douglas Bader1 quote
- Douglas Jerrold1 quote
Douglas MacArthurUnited States Army general · 1880–1964 · 2- Dr. Idel Dreimer5 quotes
Dr. SeussAmerican author and cartoonist · 1904–1991 · 31- Dr. SunWolf4 quotes
Dwight D. EisenhowerWorld War II general, U.S. president from 1953 to 1961 · 1890–1969 · 2- Dwight L. Moody1 quote
- Dylan Thomas1 quote
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E. B. WhiteAmerican author · 1899–1985 · 3- E. L. Konigsburg1 quote
- E. W. Howe1 quote
- E.M. Forster1 quote
- Earl Nightingale1 quote
- Eddie Rickenbacker1 quote
- Edgar Allan Poe1 quote
- Edgar Cayce1 quote
- Edith Wharton1 quote
- Edmund Gosse1 quote
- Edna Ferber1 quote
Edward AbbeyAmerican author advocating Radical Environmentalism · 1927–1989 · 2- Edward Fitzgerald2 quotes
- Edward Payson Powell1 quote
- Edward Young1 quote
- Edwin Markham2 quotes
- Edwin P. Whipple1 quote
- Eknath Easwaran1 quote
Elbert HubbardAmerican writer and philosopher · 1856–1915 · 15- Eleanor H. Porter1 quote
- Elinor Glyn1 quote
- Elizabeth Bibesco1 quote
- Elizabeth Gaskell1 quote
- Elizabeth Gilbert1 quote
- Elizabeth Jones Towne2 quotes
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox1 quote
- Ellen DeGeneres1 quote
- Emil Ludwig1 quote
Emily DickinsonAmerican poet · 1830–1886 · 9- Eminem1 quote
- Emmet Fox2 quotes
EpictetusGreek Stoic philosopher · 50–138 · 32- Epitaph to the Memory of Mary Wodhull1 quote
- Eric Hoffer1 quote
Erich FrommGerman-American psychologist · 1900–1980 · 4- Erik H. Erikson1 quote
- Erma Bombeck1 quote
- Ernest Hemingway1 quote
- Ethel Barrymore2 quotes
- Ethel Pochocki3 quotes
- Eugene Kennedy1 quote
Euripides5th-century BC Athenian playwright · c. 480s BC–c. 400s BC · 33- Eva Gabor1 quote
- Evan Tanner1 quote
- Ezra Pound1 quote
- Ezra Taft Benson1 quote
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- F. W. Robinson2 quotes
- Florence Bone1 quote
Florence NightingaleEnglish founder of modern nursing · 1820–1910 · 31- Fran Lebowitz1 quote
- Frances Frost1 quote
- Frances Milton Trollope1 quote
- Francis Beaumont1 quote
- Francis Chan1 quote
- Francis Edward Faragoh1 quote
- François VI3 quotes
- Frank T. Bayley1 quote
- Frank Zappa1 quote
Franklin D. RooseveltPresident of the United States from 1933 to 1945 · 1882–1945 · 2- Franz Kafka1 quote
Freddie MercuryBritish rock singer and songwriter · 1946–1991 · 30- Frederic Ridgely Torrence1 quote
- Frederick A. Rauch1 quote
- Frederick Herzberg1 quote
- Frederick William Robinson2 quotes
Frida KahloMexican painter · 1907–1954 · 30
Friedrich NietzscheGerman philosopher · 1844–1900 · 10- Friendly Calendar1 quote
- Frosty Westering1 quote
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- G. K. Chesterton1 quote
- G.K. Chesterton1 quote
- Gaelic proverb1 quote
- Gail Porter1 quote
- Gautama Buddha1 quote
- Georg C. Lichtenberg1 quote
Georg Christoph LichtenbergGerman physicist and aphorist · 1742–1799 · 3- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel1 quote
- George A. Dorsey6 quotes
- George A. Sheehan1 quote
- George Allen, Sr.1 quote
- George Bernard Shaw1 quote
- George Edward Woodberry1 quote
George EliotEnglish novelist and poet · 1819–1880 · 3- George Jean Nathan3 quotes
George LucasAmerican filmmaker and philanthropist · b. 1944 · 2- George MacDonald2 quotes
- George Orwell1 quote
George S. PattonUnited States Army general · 1885–1945 · 6- George Santayana1 quote
- George W. Burnap1 quote
George WashingtonU.S. Founding Father and president from 1789 to 1797 · 1732–1799 · 31- Georges Duhamel1 quote
- Georgette Mosbacher1 quote
- Georgia O'Keeffe1 quote
- Gerald Raftery1 quote
- Gerard Way1 quote
- Gertrude T. Buckingham1 quote
- Gertrude Tooley Buckingham1 quote
- Gilbert Parker1 quote
- Giotto di Bondone1 quote
- Godfrey Winn1 quote
- Golda Meir1 quote
- Greek Proverb1 quote
- Groucho Marx1 quote
- Guru Nanak1 quote
Gustave FlaubertFrench novelist · 1821–1880 · 3
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- H. Addington Bruce1 quote
H. G. WellsEnglish writer · 1866–1946 · 7- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.10 quotes
- H. L. Mencken1 quote
- Hal Borland1 quote
- Hannah More1 quote
- Hans Asperger1 quote
- Hans Christian Andersen1 quote
- Harold S. Geneen2 quotes
- Harry A. Blackmun1 quote
- Harry S Truman1 quote
- Harry S. Truman1 quote
Haruki MurakamiJapanese writer · b. 1949 · 32- Harvey Fierstein1 quote
- Harvey Mackay1 quote
- Havelock Ellis1 quote
- Hazelmarie "Mattie" Elliott1 quote
- Heinrich Heine1 quote
Helen KellerAmerican author and activist · 1880–1968 · 4- Helen Rowland3 quotes
- Henri Nouwen3 quotes
- Henry A. Kissinger1 quote
Henry AdamsAmerican historian · 1838–1918 · 3
Henry David ThoreauAmerican philosopher · 1817–1862 · 9- Henry Drummond4 quotes
- Henry Ford1 quote
- Henry H. Harper1 quote
- Henry Harrison Brown1 quote
Henry JamesAmerican British writer · 1843–1916 · 3- Henry James Slack2 quotes
- Henry Kirke White1 quote
- Henry Stanley Haskins4 quotes
- Henry T. Finck1 quote
- Henry Timrod1 quote
- Henry Van Dyke1 quote
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowAmerican poet and educator · 1807–1882 · 4- Henry Ward Beecher1 quote
HeraclitusAncient Greek philosopher · 535 BC–c. 470s BC · 30- Herbert A. Simon1 quote
Herman MelvilleAmerican writer · 1819–1891 · 32
HerodotusGreek historian and geographer · 484 BC–425 BC · 31- Heywood Broun1 quote
- Hillary Clinton1 quote
HippocratesAncient Greek physician · 460 BC–370 BC · 31- Holbrook Jackson1 quote
HomerAncient Greek poet · 9th century BC–8th century BC · 30- Honoré de Balzac1 quote
HoraceRoman lyric poet (65–8 BC) · 65 BC–8 BC · 31- Horace Smith1 quote
- Horace Traubel2 quotes
- Horace Walpole1 quote
- Hosea Ballou2 quotes
- Howard Lyman1 quote
- Humbert Wolfe1 quote
- Hunter S. Thompson1 quote
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- Ik Marvel2 quotes
- Imelda Staunton1 quote
Immanuel KantGerman philosopher · 1724–1804 · 2- Iris MurdochIrish-born British writer and philosopher · 1919–1999 · 4
- Irving Berlin2 quotes
Isaac AsimovAmerican writer and biochemist · 1920–1992 · 3
Isaac NewtonEnglish polymath · 1642–1727 · 30- Ishida Mitsunari1 quote
- Italian proverb1 quote
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- J. D. Salinger1 quote
- J. De Finod2 quotes
- J. L. Harbour1 quote
- J. M. Barrie1 quote
- J. M. Reinoso1 quote
- J. Paul Getty1 quote
- Jack Kerouac1 quote
Jack MaChinese business magnate and investor · b. 1964 · 22- Jackie Kennedy1 quote
- James Henry Potts2 quotes
- James Huneker1 quote
- James L. Whitney2 quotes
- James Lendall BasfordAmerican aphorist · 20
- James Mackintosh1 quote
- James Oppenheim4 quotes
- James P. Haverson1 quote
- James Rollins1 quote
- James Russell Lowell1 quote
Jane AustenEnglish novelist · 1775–1817 · 4- Jane Porter1 quote
- Janet Barton1 quote
- Japanese Proverb2 quotes
- Jason Mraz1 quote
- Jean de La Bruyère1 quote
- Jean Giono1 quote
- Jean Wright1 quote
Jean-Paul SartreFrench existentialist philosopher · 1905–1980 · 29- Jeb Dickerson1 quote
- Jeff Rich2 quotes
- Jeremy Taylor1 quote
- Jerome K. Jerome1 quote
- Jesse Tyler Ferguson1 quote
- Jessica Alba1 quote
- Jessica Savitch1 quote
- Jiddu Krishnamurti1 quote
- Jim Courier1 quote
- Jim Lovell1 quote
Jim RohnAmerican entrepreneur and motivational speaker · 1930–2009 · 3- Jim Stynes1 quote
- Jimi Hendrix1 quote
- Jimmy Carter1 quote
- Jimmy Dean2 quotes
- Joan Rivers2 quotes
- Jodie Foster1 quote
- Joe Frazier1 quote
- Joe Namath1 quote
Joel OsteenAmerican televangelist, businessman, and author · b. 1963 · 8
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGerman writer and polymath · 1749–1832 · 3- Johannes Brahms1 quote
- John Barrymore1 quote
- John C. Maxwell1 quote
- John Christopher Smith1 quote
- John Collins1 quote
- John Donne1 quote
- John Erb1 quote
John F. KennedyPresident of the United States from 1961 to 1963 · 1917–1963 · 4- John Foster Dulles1 quote
- John Gay1 quote
- John Gould Fletcher1 quote
- John H. Johnson1 quote
- John Henry Newman3 quotes
- John Hospers1 quote
John KeatsEnglish Romantic poet · 1795–1821 · 30- John Kendrick Bangs2 quotes
John LennonEnglish musician, songwriter and activist · 1940–1980 · 32- John Leonard1 quote
John LockeEnglish philosopher and physician · 1632–1704 · 29- John Lubbock1 quote
- John Lyly1 quote
John MiltonEnglish poet and civil servant · 1608–1674 · 31- John Robinson Jeffers1 quote
John RuskinEnglish polymath · 1819–1900 · 4- John Sarasien1 quote
- John Seymour1 quote
- John Stott1 quote
- John Stuart Mill1 quote
- John Suckling1 quote
- John Updike1 quote
- John Van Druten1 quote
- John Webster1 quote
John WoodenAmerican basketball coach · 1910–2010 · 3- Johnny Cash1 quote
- Jon Kabat-Zinn1 quote
- Jonathan Sacks1 quote
- Jonathan Swift1 quote
- Jorge Luis Borges1 quote
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot2 quotes
- Joseph Brodsky1 quote
Joseph CampbellAmerican mythologist, writer, and lecturer · 1904–1987 · 9- Joseph Conrad1 quote
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford1 quote
- Joseph Joubert1 quote
- Joseph Roux4 quotes
- Josh Billings1 quote
- Joyce Brothers3 quotes
- Joyce Meyer2 quotes
- Jules Renard2 quotes
- Julia A. Willis1 quote
- Julia Cooley Altrocchi2 quotes
- Julia Roberts1 quote
- Julian Casablancas1 quote
- Julie Andrews2 quotes
- Julius Caesar1 quote
- Junipero Serra1 quote
- Justin Bieber2 quotes
- Justin Regier1 quote
- Juvenal1 quote
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Kahlil GibranLebanese American artist, poet, and writer · 1883–1931 · 7- Kate J. Neely2 quotes
- Kate Langley Bosher1 quote
- Kate Stephens1 quote
Keanu ReevesCanadian actor · b. 1964 · 31- Keith Wynn2 quotes
- Kenneth Alfred Evelyn Alexander2 quotes
- Kevin Spacey1 quote
Khalil GibranLebanese American artist, poet, and writer · 1883–1931 · 2- Kin Hubbard1 quote
Kurt VonnegutAmerican author · 1922–2007 · 31
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L. M. MontgomeryCanadian novelist · 1874–1942 · 5
Lao TzuSemi-legendary Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism · b. 604 BC · 3- Laozi1 quote
- Larry King1 quote
- Latin proverb1 quote
- Laura L. Livingstone1 quote
- Laurence J. Peter1 quote
- Laurence Sterne1 quote
- Lauryn Hill1 quote
- Leah LaBelle1 quote
- Lemuel K. Washburn1 quote
- Len Wein1 quote
- Lenny Kravitz1 quote
- Leo Buscaglia4 quotes
Leo TolstoyRussian writer · 1828–1910 · 4- Leon Kass1 quote
Leonardo da VinciItalian polymath · 1452–1519 · 2
Les BrownAmerican motivational speaker and broadcaster · b. 1945 · 2
Lewis CarrollBritish author and scholar · 1832–1898 · 2- Lewis Grizzard1 quote
- Lilian Whiting1 quote
- Linus Pauling1 quote
- Lizzie West1 quote
- Logan Pearsall Smith3 quotes
Lord ByronBritish poet · 1788–1824 · 4- Lord Salisbury1 quote
- Louisa May Alcott3 quotes
- Lydia M. Child2 quotes
- Lydia Maria Child1 quote
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- M*A*S*H1 quote
- Madame Swetchine1 quote
Mahatma GandhiIndian independence activist · 1869–1948 · 3
Malcolm ForbesAmerican publisher · 1919–1990 · 2- Mantak Chia1 quote
Marcel ProustFrench novelist, literary critic, and essayist · 1871–1922 · 2
Marcus AureliusStoic philosopher, Roman emperor from 161 to 180 · 121–180 · 3
Marcus Tullius CiceroRoman statesman and lawyer · 106 BC–43 BC · 2- Margaret Lee Runbeck1 quote
- Margaret ThatcherPrime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 · 1925–2013 · 31
- Marguerite Gardiner1 quote
Maria MontessoriItalian physician and educator · 1870–1952 · 31- Marianne Williamson2 quotes
- Marie Corelli1 quote
Marie CuriePolish-French physicist and chemist · 1867–1934 · 3- Marie Dubsky2 quotes
- Marilyn Monroe1 quote
- Marilyn vos Savant1 quote
- Mario Puzo1 quote
- Marion Howard1 quote
- Mark Rutherford1 quote
Mark TwainAmerican author and humorist · 1835–1910 · 13- Mark Van Doren1 quote
- Mark Victor Hansen1 quote
- Marla Gibbs1 quote
- Marlene Dietrich1 quote
- Marquis de Sade1 quote
- Martha Beck1 quote
- Martha Graham1 quote
- Martha Washington1 quote
- Martin H. Fischer3 quotes
Martin LutherGerman priest, theologian and author · 1483–1546 · 2
Martin Luther King, Jr.American minister and civil rights activist · 1929–1968 · 5- Mary Carolyn Davies2 quotes
- Mary Hunter Austin1 quote
- Mary Wilson Little1 quote
Mary WollstonecraftEnglish writer and philosopher · 1759–1797 · 31- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley1 quote
- Mason Cooley1 quote
- Match1 quote
- Matthew Henry1 quote
- Max Lerner1 quote
- Max Lucado3 quotes
- May Sinclair2 quotes
Maya AngelouAmerican writer and activist · 1928–2014 · 3- Meister Eckhart1 quote
- Menander1 quote
- Mia Hamm2 quotes
- Michael Jackson1 quote
Michael JordanAmerican basketball player and businessman · b. 1963 · 2- Michael Porter1 quote
Michel de MontaigneFrench author and philosopher · 1533–1592 · 2
MichelangeloItalian artist and architect · 1475–1564 · 31- Mignon McLaughlin17 quotes
- Mike Dolan3 quotes
- Minna Thomas Antrim8 quotes
- Miriam Muhammad1 quote
- Moliere1 quote
Mother TeresaAlbanian-Indian Catholic saint · 1910–1997 · 32- Muhammad Ali1 quote
- Munson Havens2 quotes
- Muriel Strode14 quotes
- Mwai Kibaki1 quote
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- Napoleon Hill1 quote
Nathaniel HawthorneAmerican author · 1804–1864 · 7- Neil Armstrong1 quote
- Nelson DeMille1 quote
Nelson MandelaPresident of South Africa from 1994 to 1999 · 1918–2013 · 2- Niccolo Machiavelli1 quote
- Nicholas Sparks2 quotes
- Nigerian proverb1 quote
Nikola TeslaSerbian-American engineer and inventor · 1856–1943 · 32- Nikolai Gogol2 quotes
- Noah Webster1 quote
- Noël Coward's Brief Encounter1 quote
- Norman Cousins1 quote
- Norman Vincent Peale1 quote
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- Octave Mirbeau1 quote
- Og Mandino1 quote
Oliver Wendell HolmesAmerican poet, essayist, physician · 1809–1894 · 4- Omar N. Bradley1 quote
Oprah WinfreyAmerican media personality and proprietor · b. 1954 · 2- Orison Swett Marden9 quotes
Oscar WildeIrish writer · 1854–1900 · 8- Ossian Everett Mills1 quote
- Ouina1 quote
OvidRoman poet (43 BC – AD 17/18) · 43 BC–17 · 34
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- "Phil's-osophy" by Phil Dunphy1 quote
- "Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy4 quotes
Pablo NerudaChilean poet, diplomat, and politician · 1904–1973 · 2
Pablo PicassoSpanish painter and sculptor · 1881–1973 · 31- Paul Tillich1 quote
- Pauline Kael1 quote
Paulo CoelhoBrazilian lyricist and novelist · b. 1947 · 10- Pearl S. Buck1 quote
PeleBrazilian footballer · 1940–2022 · 31- Peter Drucker1 quote
- Peter Marshall1 quote
- Philip James Bailey1 quote
- Philip Sidney1 quote
- Phillips Brooks5 quotes
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin2 quotes
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon1 quote
- Pisistratus Caxton1 quote
- Pitbull1 quote
PlatoAncient Greek philosopher · 427 BC–347 BC · 3- Plautus1 quote
- Pope John XXIII2 quotes
- Portuguese proverb1 quote
- Proverb5 quotes
- Publilius Syrus1st century BC Syrian-born Latin writer · 1st century BC–1st century BC · 13
- Putnam1 quote
PythagorasGreek philosopher · 6th century BC–c. 490s BC · 31
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- R. A. Dick1 quote
- R. Buckminster Fuller1 quote
Rabindranath TagoreIndian polymath · 1861–1941 · 31- Ralph Marston1 quote
Ralph Waldo EmersonAmerican philosopher · 1803–1882 · 25- Ramakrishna1 quote
- Ray Stannard Baker1 quote
- Reading and the Weather1 quote
- Reese Witherspoon1 quote
- Rev. James H. Ecob2 quotes
- Richard Bach7 quotes
- Richard Branson1 quote
- Richard E. Turner1 quote
- Richard Hengist Horne1 quote
- Richard Le Gallienne2 quotes
- Richard M. DeVos1 quote
- Roald Dahl1 quote
- Robert BraultAmerican aphorist and columnist · 113
- Robert Breault1 quote
- Robert Browning1 quote
Robert E. LeeConfederate States Army general · 1807–1870 · 2
Robert FrostAmerican poet · 1874–1963 · 3
Robert H. SchullerAmerican television evangelist · 1926–2015 · 6- Robert Hall2 quotes
- Robert Haven Schauffler2 quotes
- Robert J. Burdette1 quote
- Robert Kiyosaki1 quote
Robert Louis StevensonScottish novelist and poet · 1850–1894 · 9- Robert Lynd1 quote
- Robert Schumann1 quote
- Robert Staughton Lynd2 quotes
- Robert W. Service1 quote
- Roberto Assagioli1 quote
- Robertson Davies1 quote
- Robin Bates1 quote
- Robin Crow1 quote
- Robin Williams1 quote
- Ronald Reagan1 quote
- Rosa Parks1 quote
- Rose Kennedy1 quote
- Rose Wilder Lane1 quote
RumiSufi mystic and poet · 1207–1273 · 31- Rupert Hughes2 quotes
- Russell M. Nelson1 quote
- Ruth Graham1 quote
- Ruth Stout1 quote
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- "Some Turkish Proverbs1 quote
- "Specimens of a Patent Pocket Dictionary1 quote
- S. J. Adair Fitz-Gerald1 quote
- Sai Baba1 quote
- Saint Teresa of Avila1 quote
- Salma Hayek1 quote
- Salvador Dali1 quote
Samuel ButlerEnglish novelist and critic · 1835–1902 · 4
Samuel JohnsonEnglish writer and lexicographer · 1709–1784 · 3- Sara Teasdale2 quotes
- Sarah Bernhardt1 quote
- Sasha Azevedo1 quote
- Satchel Paige1 quote
- Scott Way1 quote
- Seamus Heaney1 quote
SenecaRoman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist (c. 4 BC–AD 65) · c. 4 BC–65 · 4
Serena WilliamsAmerican tennis player · b. 1981 · 31- Seth Godin1 quote
- Shah Rukh Khan1 quote
- Sharon Begley1 quote
- Shawn Achor1 quote
- Sheldon B. Kopp1 quote
- Shirley Jones1 quote
- Sholom Aleichem1 quote
- Sidney Lanier2 quotes
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette2 quotes
- Silas X. Floyd1 quote
- Simeon Carter1 quote
Simon SinekAmerican author and speaker · b. 1973 · 31- Simone de Beauvoir1 quote
- Simone Weil1 quote
- Slang and its Analogues: A Dictionary of Heterodox Speech1 quote
SocratesGreek philosopher · 470 BC–399 BC · 2
Sophocles5th-century BC Athenian tragic playwright · 496 BC–406 BC · 41- Soren Kierkegaard1 quote
- South African proverb1 quote
- Stephen Covey1 quote
- Stephen Keshi1 quote
- Stephen Leacock1 quote
- Steve Jobs1 quote
- Steven Weinberg1 quote
- Syama Prasad Mukherjee1 quote
- Sydney Madwed1 quote
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- T. De Witt Talmage1 quote
- T. J. Chapman1 quote
- Taisen Deshimaru1 quote
- Tammy Wynette2 quotes
- Tanisha1 quote
- Taylor Swift1 quote
- Teri Garr1 quote
- Terri GuillemetsAmerican quotation anthologist and writer · 24
- The Great1 quote
- The Middle3 quotes
- The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness1 quote
- The Wonder Years1 quote
- Theodore C. Sorensen1 quote
- Theodore Dreiser1 quote
Theodore RooseveltPresident of the United States from 1901 to 1909 · 1858–1919 · 8
Thich Nhat HanhVietnamese Buddhist monk and activist · 1926–2022 · 2
Thomas A. EdisonAmerican inventor and businessman · 1847–1931 · 5- Thomas Benjamin "Tom" Sims1 quote
- Thomas Browne1 quote
- Thomas Clark Henley4 quotes
Thomas EdisonAmerican inventor and businessman · 1847–1931 · 3- Thomas Huxley1 quote
Thomas JeffersonFounding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 · 1743–1826 · 4- Thomas Jefferson Hogg —tg]1 quote
Thomas MannGerman novelist · 1875–1955 · 2
Thomas MertonAmerican Trappist monk · 1915–1968 · 2- Thomas Moore3 quotes
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Tony RobbinsAmerican motivational speaker · b. 1960 · 4- Truman Capote1 quote
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W. Somerset MaughamEnglish playwright and author · 1874–1965 · 7- W. T. McAtee1 quote
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Walt DisneyAmerican animator, producer and entrepreneur · 1901–1966 · 2- Walt Mason2 quotes
Walt WhitmanAmerican poet, essayist and journalist · 1819–1892 · 34- Walter Benjamin1 quote
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Will RogersAmerican humorist and entertainer · 1879–1935 · 4- William Armstrong Fairburn1 quote
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William BlakeEnglish poet and artist · 1757–1827 · 4
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William FaulknerAmerican writer and novelist · 1897–1962 · 2- William Feather1 quote
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William JamesAmerican philosopher and psychologist · 1842–1910 · 3- William Makepeace Thackeray1 quote
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William ShakespeareEnglish playwright and poet · 1564–1616 · 14- William Styron1 quote
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Winston ChurchillBritish statesman and writer · 1874–1965 · 7- Wisława Szymborska1 quote
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