Best of Quotes

By Dr. Vijay Mittal

Best of Quotes is a compilation of about 3000 time tested quotes over last many centuries worldwide which are still relevant today and guide us to live a happy, peaceful, meaningful and contented life. Quotes have been categorised topic wise for easy reference. Writers of Many quotes are unknown, .Readers are welcome to convey writer's name for these

• Language: English
• Publisher: Diamond Books
• Release date: Dec 21, 2023
• ISBN: 9789356846463

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ACHIEVEMENTS

• Nothing will come of nothing.

–Shakespeare

• Nothing great was ever achieved without passion.

–Hegel

• Count your achievements to buck up and achieve more in life.

–Vijay Mittal

• There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care who gets the credit for it.

–Anonymous

ACTING

• The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

–Charlie Chaplin

• An actor is a guy who, if you ain’t talking about him, he ain’t listening.

–George Glass

• There are no small parts, only small actors.

–Ginger Rogers

• A celebrity is a person who works all his life to be known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

–Anonymous

• In a theatre when drama plays, you opt for front seats. When film is screened, you opt for rear seats…your position in life is only relative, not absolute.

–Anonymous

ACTION

• Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

–Theodore Roosevelt

• That action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

–Francis Hutcheson

• Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.

–Horace

• You must get involved to have an impact, no one is impressed with the win-loss record of the referee.

–J H Ho Lcomb

• The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

–Lee Lacocia

• Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

–Lou Hugo

• He who limps is still walking.

–Stanislaw Lee

• If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

–William James

• Talent is only a starting point.

–Irving Berlin

• I will act as if what I do make a difference.

–William James

• As people are walking all the time in the same spot, a path appears.

–Lu Xun

• Actions to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

–J L Nehru

• You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.

–J N Mitchell

• Just do it.

–Nike corporation

• Either move or be moved.

–Colin Powell

• Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.

–Ralph Ransom

• If you want to get along, go along.

–Sam Rayburn

• It is better to wear out than to rust out.

–George Whitefield

• The first step is the hardest.

–M D V Chamrond

• Do something, if it works do more of it, if it does not, do something else.

–F D Roosevelt

• He who considers too much will perform little.

–F V Schiller

• One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

–John Roger

• The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

–Red Auerbach

• People may doubt what you say but they will believe what you do.

–Lewis Cass

• Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

–Warren Buffett

• I never worry about action but only inaction.

–W Churchill

• Never mind your happiness, do your duty.

–Will Durant

• An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

–Friedrich Engels

• Your action and your action alone determines your worth.

–J G Fichte

• Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

–H J Grant

• Action is the real measure of intelligence.

–Napoleon Hill

• The more we do, the more we can do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

–William Hazlitt

• When I talked no one listened to me but as soon as I acted I became persuasive and I no longer found anyone incredulous.

–Giosu

• Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought

–Henri Bergson

• Well begun is half done.

–Aristotle

• I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.

–Chinese Proverb

• The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

–Chinese Proverb

• Just do what you do best.

–Red Auerbach

• A ship in harbor is safe but that is not what ships are built for.

–John A Shedd

• Always act as if you are seen.

–Baltasar Gracian

• Don’t wait until conditions are perfect to begin, beginning makes conditions perfect.

–Alan Cohen

• Tiredness can be because of activity…or inactivity.

–Vijay Mittal

• It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

–Anonymous

• The early bird gets the worm.

–Anonymous

• Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

–Anonymous

• It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and river crooked.

–Anonymous

• Two thirds of PROMOTION is MOTION.

–Anonymous

• If you start soon enough, you won’t have to catch up.

–Anonymous

• If your sword is too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

–Anonymous

• The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

–Anonymous

• Do not slack off your good actions even for a day.

–Anonymous

• Vision without action remains a concept and action without vision leads to fruitless activity.

–Anonymous

• Best ideas in the universe are useless unless practiced.

–Anonymous

• Some people quit and bear it, others smile and do it.

–Anonymous

• We are what we repeatedly do.

–Anonymous

• The only cure for grief is action.

–Anonymous

• Nobody has ever climbed a hill just by looking at it.

–Anonymous

• Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.

–Anonymous

• We have only two alternatives- do or die, hunt or get hunted.

–Anonymous

• 80% of the results you achieve come from 20% of your activities that occupy your time.

–Anonymous

• We learn by doing.

–Anonymous

• Begin in time to finish without hurry.

–Anonymous

• A man has limited capacity- either he can talk or act.

–Anonymous

• He who can, does, he who cannot, teaches.

–Anonymous

• The more said, the less done.

–Anonymous

• No one knows what he can do till he tries.

–Anonymous

• It’s not enough to be busy, the question is what are you busy in?

–Anonymous

ADMIRATION

• To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

–C H Cooley

• We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

–Fran

• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

–F H Bradley

ADVERSITY

• A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

–Chinese proverb

• When you are in the light, everything follows you, but when you enter into the dark, even your own shadow doesn’t follow you.

–Hitler

• Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

–Josh Billings

• Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

–Les Bown

• In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage, in every defeat there is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

–Rober Collier

• A wounded deer leaps the highest.

–Emily Dickinson

• Even if you fall on your face, you are still moving forward.

–Robert C Gallagher

• The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

–Doug Horton

• He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

–Ben Jonson

• Each success only buys an admission to a more difficult problem.

–Henry Kissinger

• What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.

–F Nietzsche

• A certain amount of opposition ia a great help to a man; kites rise against, not with the wind.

–John Neal

• Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them; a masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

–N V Pearle

• The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

–R M Nixon

• When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars.

–Lee Salk

• Tough times never last, tough people do.

–R H Schuller

• Develop a knack of turning apparent disadvantage into definite advantage.

–Vijay Mittal

• The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them.

–Anonymous

ADVERTISING

• In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

–William Bernbach

• The right name is an advertisement in itself.

–Claude Hopkins

• Advertising is legalized lying.

–H G Wells

ADVICE

• Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

–Warren Buffett

• Good advice must be given, even if not listened to.

–Agatha Christie

• Never give advice in a crowd.

–Arabic Proverb

• To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

–J C Collins

• Advice is seldom welcome and those who need it the most always like it the least.

–Lord Chesterfield

• Advice is judged by results, not by intention.

–M T Cicero

• Wise men don’t need advice, fools won’t take it.

–B Franklin

• When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

–Kahlil Gibran

• Whatever advice you give, be short.

–Horace

• He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.

–K V Knebel

• Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

–Sidney J Harris

• I don’t believe in giving advice because I don’t like taking it.

–Anonymous

• A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice.

–Anonymous

• Unsolicited advice is vice.

–Anonymous

AGE

• Cherish youth, but trust old age.

–American Indian Proverb

• Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

–Muhammad Ali

• No wise man ever wished to be younger.

–Jonathan swift

• None so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

–H D Thoreau

• How do you live a long life? Take a two mile walk every morning before breakfast.

–H S Truman

• If you carry your childhood with you will never become older.

–Abraham Sutzkever

• A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

–Jean Rostand

• Those who love deeply never grow old, they may die of old age but they die young.

–A W Pinero

• Live your life and forget your age.

–N V Pearle

• Don’t just count your years, make your years count.

–Ernest Meyers

• Old age has its pleasures, which though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

–W S Maugham

• It is not how old you are but how you are old.

–M Dressler

• Some people, no matter how old they get never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.

–M Buxbaum

• A comfortable old age is the reward of a well spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

–Lydia Maria Child

• Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

–J Brown

• Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you have escaped not from one master but from many.

–Plato

• There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.

–Richard Steele

• When you meet somebody older than you, refer to him as you… not sir or madam.

–Raul Cartez

• It is sad to grow old but it is nice to ripen.

–Brigitte Bardot

• He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

–Marcus Aurelius

• Forget the birth certificate, we are as old as we think.

–Vijay Mittal

• Want to feel young? mingle with younger people, want to look young? mingle with older people.

–Vijay Mittal

• With maturing years, one gains in wisdom and foresight.

–Vijay Mittal

• The older you grow, the less you are surprised or shocked by the events around you.

–Vijay Mittal

• There is no age limit nor formal education needed to pursue world’s two oldest professions.

–Vijay Mittal

• Age withers only the outside.

–Anonymous

• We don’t stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.

–Anonymous

• You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

–Anonymous

• You don’t stop having fun when you get old, you get old when you stop having fun.

–Anonymous

• A man, as he manages himself, may die old at thirty or young at eighty.

–Anonymous

• We turn not older but newer every day.

–Anonymous

• Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

–Anonymous

• The young man knows the rule, but the old man knows the exceptions.

–Anonymous

• I have no romantic feelings about age–either you are interesting at any age or you are not.

–Anonymous

• No one is ever too old to learn or too young to teach.

–Anonymous

AGREEMENT

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