Quotes

Words worth keeping

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

Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful.

— Roy T. Bennett
Inspirational Life Kindness Positive Thinking

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

— George Bernard Shaw
Life Philosophy

You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.

— C. JoyBell C.
Inspirational Life Change & Growth

From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

— Groucho Marx
Humor Books & Writing

Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.

— José N. Harris
Love Sadness & Pain Courage & Strength Hope Death & Loss

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

— Margaret Mead
Education & Knowledge Family

There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.

— Edgar Allan Poe
Art & Beauty

Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.

— J.K. Rowling
Humor

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

— Mark Twain
General

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

— Harper Lee
General

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.

— Henry Miller
General

Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.

— Markus Zusak
Inspirational Life Philosophy Hope

Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.

— Roy T. Bennett
Inspirational Life Positive Thinking Success

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

— Douglas Adams
General

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

— Douglas Adams
Life

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.