Motivational Quotes

Quotations

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

Best Quotes about Quotations

Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.

Morely, John

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

Woolf, Virginia

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Orson Welles

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

Edwin P. Whipple

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde

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

David H. Comins

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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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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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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

Andre Malraux

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Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.

Gates, W. I. E.

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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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Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments.

Sontag, Susan

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A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

Baldwin, James

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I didn't really say everything I said.

Yogi Berra

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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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Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

Philip G. Hamerton

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

Doctor Who

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

George Bernard Shaw

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I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose, said Tan-Chun. If I told you how it went on, I should end up by contradicting myself!

Cao Xueqin

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

Dan Quayle

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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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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Debord, Guy

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

Samuel Johnson

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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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We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of our white mythology. Other authors we constantly invoke, chanting their names in cerebral rituals of propitiation or ancestor worship.

Hassan, Ihab

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

Talmud, The

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

Joseph Roux

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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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Our best thoughts come from others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

William Feather

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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, 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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Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything.

Peacock, Thomas Love

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

Edward Young

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To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.

C. E. Montague

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In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.