Famous Quotations

Our searchable collection of quotes and aphorisms aims to be the best, not the biggest. Perfect for making a convincing point at the negotiation table, in your speech or presentation. If you would like to know more about one of our negotiation skills courses, then please get in touch.

Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes, the subconscious identically creates.
Brian Adams

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Churchill

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
John Erskine

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfilment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
Martin Luther King Jr

How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.
Gerald Jampolsky

He who cannot forgive others destroys the bridge over which he himself must pass.
George Herbert

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. To know men thoroughly, to judge events sanely is therefore a great step towards happiness.
Stendhal

Every thought has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.
Goethe

The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Steven Covey

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
Richard Moss

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.
Marcel Proust

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
Khalil Gibran

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Mother Teresa

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The time to repair a leaky roof is when the sun is shining.
John F Kennedy

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
Nikki Giovanni

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Hector Louis Berlioz

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