130 Best English Quotes to English Quotes

Here are the 130 Best English Quotes to Motivate yourself at any time. These English quotes are collected from the achievers, kingmakers, famous people, and the people who inspire you all the time. If you want to motivate yourself and make yourself at the top, these English quotes will help you. Read and enjoy!

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Best English Quotes

1. “A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.” -Will Rogers

2. “My thoughts disentangle themselves as they pass through my lips and fingertips.” -Dawson Trotman

3. “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” -Alexander Graham Bell

4. “I was raised to face any challenge.” -Louis Zamperini (English Quotes)

5. “If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.” -Thomas J. Watson

6. “I really like reading books.” -Dale Carnegie(English Quotes)

7. “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” -Helen Keller

“Nothing will work unless you do.” -Maya Angelou

9. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” -Albert Einstein

10. “The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.” -Anne Frank

11. “Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.” -Michael Corleone

12. “May the Force be with you.” – Star Wars(English Quotes)

13. “Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.” – Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx

14. “We meet no ordinary people in our lives.” -C.S. Lewis(English Quotes)

English quotes about life

15. “Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it, the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.” – Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post

16. “Knowledge is power.” – Sir Francis Bacon(English Quotes)

17. “Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.” -Billy Graham

18. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkein(English Quotes)

19. “The last of human freedoms—the ability to choose one’s attitude in a given set of circumstances.” -Viktor E. Frankl

20. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ” -Eleanor Roosevelt(English Quotes)

21. “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” – Forrest Gump

22. “What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.” -Arnold Palmer

23. “Hell has no fury like a woman scorned.” -William Congreve

24. “One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
-Andre Gide, author, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature

25. “The soul is stronger than its surroundings.” -William James

26. “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. ” -William Shakespeare

27. “He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

28. “Nothing is certain except for death and taxes.” – Benjamin Franklin

29. “Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.” -Billy Graham

30.

“Know yourself.” -Greek Proverb

31. “Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.” -Oprah Winfrey

32. “Hell is other people.” – Jean-Paul Sartre

33. “Go ahead, make my day. ” -Harry Callahan(English Quotes)

34. “I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.” -Neil Armstrong

35. “He travels the fastest who travels alone.” – Rudyard Kipling

36. “All that glitters is not gold.” – William Shakespeare

37. “Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. ” -John Dalberg-Acton

38. “It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.” -John Wooden

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

40. “Speak softly and carry a big stick. ” -Theodore Roosevelt

41. “Sweating the details is more important than anything else.”- Indra Nooyi

42. “Here’s looking at you, kid.” – Rick Blaine(English Quotes)

43. “Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

44. “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” – Thomas Edison

45. “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” – William Shakespeare

46. “The love of money is the root of all evil.” – the Bible

47. “Houston, we have a problem.” – Jim Lovell(English Quotes)

48. “That’s one small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind.” – Neil Armstrong

49. “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” – John Kennedy

50. “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” – Rhett Butler

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

52. “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find.” – the Bible

53. “You shouldn’t blindly accept a leader’s advice. You’ve got to question leaders on occasion.” – Richard Branson

54. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”- Steve Jobs

55. “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” – Martin Luther King

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“To be awake is to be alive.” -Henry David Thoreau

57. “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” -Leonardo da Vinci

58. “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” -Plutarch

59. “Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.” -Amelia Earhart

60. “It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.” -John Wooden

61. “A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.” -Mahatma Gandhi

62. “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” -Winston Churchill

63. “If you want to be happy, be.” -Leo Tolstoy(English Quotes)

64. “Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.

65. “If we all did the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.” -Thomas Edison

66. “If we all did the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.” -Thomas Edison

67. “There is nothing brilliant nor outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing: I do the things that I believe ought to be done… And when I wake up my mind to do a thing, I act.” -Theodore Roosevelt

68. “Optimism is true moral courage.” -Ernest Shackleton(English Quotes)

69. “You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” -Aristotle

70. “The soul is stronger than its surroundings.” -William James

71. “So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person’s genius is confined to a very few hours.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” -William James

73. “Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.” -Pythagoras

74. “Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.” -Neil Armstrong

75. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” -Thomas A. Edison

76. “The truth will set you free.” – the Bible(English Quotes)

77. “God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.” -C.S. Lewis

78. “When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.” -George Washington Carver

79. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” -Aristotle

Famous English quotes

80. “Peace begins with a smile.” -Mother Teresa

81. “Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.” -John Wayne

82. “From caring comes courage.” -Lao Tzu(English Quotes)

83. “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” -Woody Allen

84.

“Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.”-Jack Ma

85. “Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live.”
– Anne Sweeney

86. “Elementary, my dear Watson.” – Sherlock Holmes

87. “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.” – Blanche Dubois

88. “There’s no place like home.” – Dorothy(English Quotes)

89. “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”– Warren Buffet

90. “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” -Lt. Kilgore

91. “I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” -Dorothy

92. “I am still learning.” -Michelangelo

93. “Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.” – Benjamin Franklin

94. “For those to whom much is given, much is required. -the Bible

95. “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” – Lt. Kilgore

96. “If you build it, they will come.” -Joe Jackson

97. “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson

98. “If at first, you don’t succeed, try, try again.” – W. E. Hickson

99. “You talkin’ to me?” – Bickle(English Quotes)

100. “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.” -Vito Corleone

101. “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” – Coco Chanel

102. “If you want something done right, do it yourself.” – Charles-Guillaume Étienne

103. “To be or not to be, that is the question.” – William Shakespeare

Funny English quotes

104. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill(English Quotes)

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

106. “I’ll be back.” – Terminator

107. “To err is human; to forgive, divine.” – Alexander Pope

108. “If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.” – Margaret Thatcher

109. “What would you do if you were not afraid?”- Sheryl Sandberg

110. “You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” -Abraham Lincoln

111. “Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” -Viktor E. Frankl

112. “What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

113. “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can’t reach.” – Captain

114. “United we stand, divided we fall.” – Aesop(English Quotes)

115. “Always deliver more than expected.” -Larry Page

116. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln

117. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost

118.

“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” – Scott Belsky

Old English quotes

119. “To thine own self, be true.” – William Shakespeare

120. “The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.” -W. Somerset Maugham

121. “We build too many walls and not enough bridges.” -Isaac Newton

122. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” -Thomas A. Edison

123. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” -T. S. Eliot

124. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” -Albert Einstein

125. “Learning never exhausts the mind.” -Leonardo da Vinci(English Quotes)

126. “Change happens in an instant. It happens the moment you DECIDE to change.” – Allyson Lewis

127. “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” -Albert Einstein

128. “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” -Pablo Picasso

129. “Think, think, think.” -A.A. Milne

130. “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”― Cassandra Clare

What are the best Shakespeare's English Quotes?

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. ” -William Shakespeare

“All that glitters is not gold.” – William Shakespeare

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” – William Shakespeare

“To be or not to be, that is the question.” – William Shakespeare

“To thine own self, be true.” – William Shakespeare

What are the best Abraham Lincoln's English Quotes?

“You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” -Abraham Lincoln

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln