Motivational Quotes

Quotations

I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.

- Dorothy Parker

Best Quotes about Quotations

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

George Bernard Shaw

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

Edward Young

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

H. L. Mencken

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

Dan Quayle

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

Brendan Francis

Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together speeches are paying attention only to the soundbite, not to the text as a whole, not realizing that all great soundbites happen by accident, which is to say, all great soundbites are yielded up inevitably, as part of the natural expression of the text. They are part of the tapestry, they aren't a little flower somebody sewed on.

Noonan, Peggy

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

David H. Comins

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A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Roux, Joseph

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He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Rudyard Kipling

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What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?

Doctor Who

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When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

Pearson, Hesketh

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An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

Edwin P. Whipple

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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.

Alfred North Whitehead

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He wrapped himself in quotations -- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Kipling, Rudyard

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A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

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I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

Seneca

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He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I quote others in order to better express myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.

Alinsky, Saul

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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Alfred North Whitehead

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A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.

Talmud, The

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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

Samuel Johnson

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I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.

Dorothy Parker

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In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

Selden, John

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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Mark Twain

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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Samuel Johnson

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Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

Hesketh Pearson

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Our best thoughts come from others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which merely circle the ineffable idea I seek to express.

Caldwell O'Keefe

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The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.

Hassan, Ihab

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A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.

Robert Chapman

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Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

Malcolm, Janet

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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

Orson Welles

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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

Marlene Dietrich

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Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.

Davies, Robertson

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One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats --and one always secretes too much jelly.

Woolf, Virginia

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There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

Pierre Bayle

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Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.