Quotes

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

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Don't let the bastards grind you down.

— Margaret Atwood
Inspirational

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

— Anne Frank
Inspirational Art & Beauty Hope

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

— Adrienne Rich
Inspirational

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

— Mark Twain
Inspirational Courage & Strength

Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.

— Michelle Hodkin
Truth Inspirational

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

— Bob Marley
Inspirational

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

— John Muir
Inspirational

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.

— Randy Pausch
Inspirational Success

please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.

— Stephen Chbosky
Inspirational Life Happiness

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

— Maya Angelou
Inspirational

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

— Paulo Coelho
Inspirational

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

— Kazuo Ishiguro
Inspirational

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

— Sarah Dessen
Inspirational

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

— Confucius
Inspirational Life Education & Knowledge

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

— Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational 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.