Quotes

Words worth keeping

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

Without music, life would be a mistake.

— Friedrich Nietzsche
Inspirational Philosophy Art & Beauty

We accept the love we think we deserve.

— Stephen Chbosky
Inspirational Love

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

— Oscar Wilde
Education & Knowledge

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self & Identity

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

— Rob Siltanen
Change & Growth

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

— Narcotics Anonymous
Life Humor

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

— Marilyn Monroe
General

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Dreams

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

— Andre Gide
Life Love

All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost;The old that is strong does not wither,Deep roots are not reached by the frost.From the ashes a fire shall be woken,A light from the shadows shall spring;Renewed shall be blade that was broken,The crownless again shall be king.

— J.R.R. Tolkien
Books & Writing Courage & Strength

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

— J.K. Rowling
General

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

— Jane Austen
Humor Books & Writing

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

— Marilyn Monroe
Self & Identity Inspirational

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

— Albert Einstein
Inspirational Life

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

— J.K. Rowling
Life Dreams

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.