Famous Quotes

Famous Quotes

Famous quotes from famous people. Who doesn't know the Gettysburg address? Even people outside the USA have heard of Abraham Lincoln! There have been, and still are, many much-quoted sayings and short sentences attributed to the great men and women who have played important parts in the shaping of this world's history. These quotes are known all over, and are used so frequently they've been memorized by people even without meaning to. Here are a few:

  1. Martin Luther King: “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed - we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
  2. John F. Kennedy: “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”
  3. Abraham Lincoln: “Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
  4. Hamlet in Shakespeare's “Hamlet:” “To be, or not to be, that is the Question.”
  5. Eleanor Roosevelt: “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
  6. George Washington: “It is better to be alone than in bad company.”
  7. Mother Teresa: “We can do no great things; only small things with great love.”
  8. Benjamin Franklin: “God helps them that help themselves.”
  9. Abraham Lincoln “Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.”
  10. Karl Marx: “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”
  11. Francis Bacon “Knowledge is power.”
  12. Winston Churchill: “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
  13. Mark Antony in Shakespeare's “Julius Caesar:” “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.”
  14. Alexander Pop “To err is human, to forgive divine.”
  15. Albert Einstein: “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
  16. Ralph Waldo Emerson: “What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.”
  17. Nathan Hale: "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country."
  18. Davy Crockett: “First make sure you're right, then go ahead.”
  19. Gaius Julius Caesar: “Veni, Vedi, Vici (I came, I saw, I conquered).”