Compilation of quotes about Famous Figures

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

“I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” – Woody Allen

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein

“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” – J.K. Rowling (from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I came, I saw, I conquered.” – Julius Caesar

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” – Rumi

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“I think, therefore I am.” – René Descartes

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” – Muhammad Ali

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

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

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” – Vincent van Gogh

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.