Quotes

Words worth keeping

2,684 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

— John Green
Change & Growth Death & Loss

Promise YourselfTo be so strong that nothingcan disturb your peace of mind.To talk health, happiness, and prosperityto every person you meet.To make all your friends feelthat there is something in themTo look at the sunny side of everythingand make your optimism come true.To think only the best, to work only for the best,and to expect only the best.To be just as enthusiastic about the success of othersas you are about your own.To forget the mistakes of the pastand press on to the greater achievements of the future.To wear a cheerful countenance at all timesand give every living creature you meet a smile.To give so much time to the improvement of yourselfthat you have no time to criticize others.To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,not in loud words but great deeds.To live in faith that the whole world is on your sideso long as you are true to the best that is in you.

— Christian D. Larson
Inspirational Love Courage & Strength Positive Thinking Happiness

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

— Aldous Huxley
Truth

Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.

— Suzanne Collins
General

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.

— Kurt Vonnegut
Humor

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Inspirational Women

When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.

— Groucho Marx
Humor Friendship

Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission.""Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay," Clary muttered."Selling them on what?"Clary smiled blandly at him. "A mythical place of great magical power.

— Cassandra Clare
General

Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

— Terry Pratchett
Humor

Whatever you are, be a good one.

— Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

— J.R.R. Tolkien
Happiness

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.Delicious Ambiguity.

— Gilda Radner
Life Books & Writing

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

— Oscar Wilde
General

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

— Carter Crocker
General

For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

— Douglas Adams
Humor

World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.