Beautiful 229 Quotations For All Students
BEAUTIFUL QUOTATIONS
1. The greatest
happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, - Victor Hugo
2. The first sign of
love is the loss of wisdom. - Abret
3. Our first love and
last love is self love. - Bovee
4. To say that you can
love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue
burning as long as you live. - Tolstoi
5. Love is loveliest
when embalmed in tears. - Sweden Born
6. No defeat is final
until we stop trying. - Unknown
7. We ourselves are the
captains of our souls and the masters of our minds. - Unknown
8. It is as natural to
die as to be born. - Bacon
9. I know nothing
except the fact of my ignorance. - Socrates
10. Reading maketh a
full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. - Francis Bacon
11. Studies serve for
delight, for ornament and for ability. - Bacon
12. To me the meanest
flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie two deep for tears.
- Wordsworth
13. Wives are young
men’s mistresses, companions for middle age and old men’s nurses. - Bacon
14. Knowledge comes,
but wisdom lingers. - Tennyson
15. When all else is
lost, the future still remains. - Bovee
16. Fame is the perfume
of heroic deeds. - Socrates
17. Women are only
children of a larger growth. - Lord Chesterfield
18. When the candles
are out, all women are fair. -Flutark
19. Women are wiser
than men. Because, they know less and understand more. - James Stephens
20. The history of the
world is the record of man in quest of his daily bread and butter.
- Hendrik Van Loon
21. There are but three
general events which happen to mankind Birth, life and death. Of their birth
they are insensible. They suffer when they die, and neglect to live. - Jeal
dela Bruyere
22. All human activity
is prompted by desire. - Betrand Russet
23. To be proud of
learning is the greatest ignorance. - Jeremy Taylor
24. Modesty is the
citadel of beauty and virtue. - Demades
25. Patriotism is the
last refuge of a scoundrel. - Johnson
26. Genius begins great
work; labour alone finishes them. - Jouber
27. Innocence is but a
poor substitute for experience. - Bulwer
28. In idleness there
is perpetual despair. - Carlyle
29. The future is
always a fairy land to the young. - Sala
30. He who fears being
conquered is sure to defeat. - Napoleon
31. He is not poor that
has little, but he that desires much. - Daniel
32. Poverty is the test
of civility and the touch stone of friendship. - Hazlitt
33. He whom the Gods
love, dies young. - Menander
34. Death is the golden
key that opens the place of eternity. - Milton
35. A good book is the
life blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up for a life beyond.
- Milton
36. Beauty is often
worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and the beholder. - Zimmerman
37. Men are valued not
for what they are but for what they seem to be. - Lord Lylton
38. Beauty and sadness
always go together. - MacDonald
39 Fear is the mother
of safety. -Burke
40. To err is human; to
forgive is divine. - Pope
41. Distrust all those
who love you extremely upon a very light acquaintance and without any visible
reason. - Chesterfield
42. Friendship is to be
purchased only by friendship. - Bishop Wilson
43. Love is not flame
meeting but a spirit calling to spirit. - Radha Krishnan
44. Only the very
wisest and the very stupidest never change. - Confucious
45. Silence and modesty
are very valuable qualities in the art o conversation. - Montaign
46. Men fear death as
children fear to go in dark. - Bacon
47. The secret of
success is constancy of purpose. - Bacon
48. If winter comes,
can spring be far behind. - Shelly
49. Of all things in
the world, surely love is the best. - Man Corelli
50. A little learning
is a dangerous thing. - Alexander Pope
51. Jealousy is a proof
of love. - Dryclen
52. Impatience is the
most inseparable quality of a lover. - Shell
53. Fear not the
future, weep not for the past. - Shell?
54. A thing of beauty
is a joy forever. - Keats
55. Our sweetest songs
are those that tell of saddest thought. - Shell?
56. Fools rush in,
where angles fear to tread. -Pope
57. Advice is seldom
welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least. -
Chesterfield
58. It is always a
silly thing to give advice but to give good advice is absolutely fatal. - -
Oscar Wilde
59. Success in life is
a matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and
perservance.
- Wendte
60. Love is an image of
God, and not a lifeless image but the living essence of the divine nature which
beams full of all goodness. - Luther
61. Fame, to the
ambitious, is like salt water to the thirsty—the more one gets, the more one
wants.
- Ebers
o2. Neither piety,
virtue nor liberty can long flourish in a community where the education of
youth is neglected. - Cooper
63. Do thy (your) duty
which lieth (lies) nearest to thee (you). Thy (your) second duty will already
have become clearer. - Thomas Carlyle
64. It is an error to
suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in
the dangers to which they accustom themselves either in imagination or
practise. - Buiwer
65. The character is
like white paper; if once blotted, it can hardly be ever made to appear white
as before. - J. Hawes
66. People in general
only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for the sake
of having someone to blame for having given it. - Alexander Dumas
67. The uses of
adversity are sweet. -Shakespeare
68. The tctions of men
are like the index of a book; they point out what is most remarkable in them.
- Thomas
69. A fool’s heart is
in his tongue, but a wise man’s tongue is in his heart. - Quarles
70. Marriage with a
good woman is a harbour in the tempest of life; with a bad woman it is a
tempest in the harbour. - Anonymous
71. A poem is a picture
without words. - Harace walepole
72. Friendship improves
happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.
- Horace walepole
73. The old order
changeth (changes) yielding place to new. - Tennyson
74. The world is a
mirror, laugh before it and it laughs back at you. Weep before it and it weeps
back at you. - Shakespeare
75. It is better to
have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. - Shakespeare
76. Poetry is the
breath and finer spirit of all knowledge. - Wordsworth
77. The world is a
comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. - Horace Walepole
78. Authors, like
coins, grow dear as they grow old. - Lytton
79. Temples are the
silent prayers of the earth to heaven. - Dr. Radha Krishanan
80. One crowded hour of
glorious life is worth an age without a name. - T. 0. Mordaunt
81. Wealth is not his
that has it but his that enjoys it. - Franklin
82. They also serve who
only stand and wait. - Milton
83. The course of true
love never runs smooth. - Shakespeare
84. No fool can be
silent at a feast. - Solon
85. Justice delayed is
justice denied. - Gladstone
86. If God did not
exist, it would be necessary to invent him. - Voltaire
87. A fool flatters
himself; a wise man flatters the fool. - Buiwer
88. None preaches
better than the ant, and she is saying nothing. - Franklin
89. All the world in a
stage, and all men and women merely players. - Shakespeare
90. There is nothing
either good or bad but thinking makes it so.- Shakespeare
91. Sorrows like babies
grow bigger by nursing. - Shakespeare
92. Do not yield to
misfortunes but meet them with fortitude. - Virgil
93. Power tends to
corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. - Lord Action
94. Dost thou (do you)
love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
95. Better to reign in
hell than serve in heaven. - Milton
96. Some are born
great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
- Shakespeare
97. Poets are the
unacknowledged legislators of the world. - P. B. Shelly
98. The best of a man
or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. - G. B. Shaw
99. Her eyes are homes
of silent prayer. - Tennyson
100. Sorrow are our
best educators. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope. -
Tennyson
101. The true work of
art but a shadow of the divine perfection. – Michael angelo
102. They always talk
who never think.- Prior
103. Life is flower of
which love is honey. - Victor Hugo
104. Every man is a
volume, if you know how to read him. - Canning
105. Brevity is the
soul of wit. - Shakespeare
106. Beauty’s tears are
lovelier than her smiles. - Campbell
107. Charm strikes the
sight. But merit wins the soul. - Young
108. The history of
man’s heart is in that word “admiration” - G. B. Shaw
109. Votes should be
weighted than counted. - Schiller
110. It is cowardice to
conform to discipline when it is prostituted to serve the unholy ambitions of a
group. - G. B. Shaw
111. Peace hath her
victories no less renowned than war. - Milton
112. Who does nothing
for other does nothing for himself. - Geothe
113. Beauty is God’s
handwriting welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower. -
Kingsley
114. Great calamities
always come suddenly. - Marie Corelli
115. Fame is the last
infirmity of noble minds. - Milton
116. Unrest, pain and
sorrow are the shadows of life. - James Allen
117. Heard melodies are
sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. - Keats
118. Every man is the
maker of his own fortune. - Tatler
119. Fortune is the
rod, and the staff of the brave. - J. R. Lowell
120. Truth never dies. -
Unknown
121. Unselfishness is
more paying. Only people have not the patience to practise it. - Vivekananda
122. You should always
cherish some ambition to do something in this world. - Ambedkar
123. The essence of
knowledge, having it, to apply it not having it, to confess your ignorance.
- Confucius
124. There may be luck
in getting a good job, but there is no luck in keeping it. - Jonathan Ogdan
Armour
125. The bee is more
honoured than any other animal not because she labours, but because she labours
for other. - St. Chrysostom
126. They only man who
makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid of
mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice. - Roosevelt
127. The world is a
looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown
at it, and it in turn will look sourly upon you. Laugh at it and with it and it
is a jolly, kind companion.
- William M. Thackery
128. For a clean life,
attend more to the cultivation of the mind and the spirit of self-help to
establish your unrestricted freedom. - Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
129. Better to die in
the prime of youth for a great cause than to live like an oak and do nothing.
- Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
130. Remember that
nothing valuable in this world is ever achieved except by great efforts.
- Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
131. An ideal society
should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking
place in one part to the other parts. - Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
132. There is no use
having Swaraj, if you cannot defend it. - Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
133. A knowledge of the
past and its heritage is of great significance when it enters into the present
but not otherwise. - Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
134. Dragging on life
some how or living like a crow are not worthy life to live but should be
ennobled by sacrifice to truth, vow, honour or country. - Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
135. My ideal society
would be a society based on liberty, equality and fraternity. - Dr. B. R.
Ambedkar
136. A state without
the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
- Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
137. They alone rise
who strive. - Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
138. Anger begins in
folly and ends in repentance. - Pythagoras
139. I like to see a
man proud of his country and I like to see him so live that his country is
proud of him.
- Lincoln
140. If you have built
castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be,
now put foundations under them. - Henry D. Thoreau
141. An optimist is one
who sees an opportunity in every difficulty. A pessimist is one who sees a
difficulty in every opportunity. - Anonymous
142. What we can do for
another is the test of power. What we can suffer for another is the test of
love.
- Bishop Westcolt
143. The only safe and
sure way to destroy an enemy is to make him your friend. - Unknown
144. Service can have
no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for
fear of public opinion. It stunts the man and crushes his spirit - Gandhi
145. Self suffering in
the truest test of sincerity. - Gandhi
146. I feel that the
greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. - Jonas Edward Salk
147. My writings should
be cremated with my body. What I have done will endure, not what I have said
and written. - Gandhi
148. The best way to
get rid of your duties is to discharge them. - Unknown
149. To be angry is to
revenge the faults of others upon ourselves. - Pope
150. It is the greatest
of all mistakes to do nothing, because you can only do little. - Sydney Smith
151. Character is like
a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it. The
tree is the real things. - Lincoln
152. Confession of
error is like a broom that sweeps away dirt and leaves the surface cleaner than
before. - Gandhi
153. He that is good
for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. - Benjamin Franklin
154. If you do not
believe in co-operation, look what happens that loses a wheel. - Anonymous
155. Anyone can become
angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person and to the right
degree and at the right time and for the right purpose and in the right way.
That is not within everybody’s power and is not easy. - Aristotle
156. Be wiser than
other people if you can but do dot tell them so. - Unknown
157. Defeat, like a
headache, warns us that something has gone wrong. If we are intelligent, we
look for the cause and profit by the experience. - Unknown
158. Being ignorant is
not as much a shame as being unwilling to learn. - Benjamin Franklin
159. Keep your face to
the sun-shine and you cannot see the shadow. - Hellen Keller
160. Do good to thy
(your) friend to keep him to thy (your) enemy to gain him. - Franklin
161. Love is blind. -
Shakespeare
162. Determine to like
your work. Then it will become a pleasure not drudgery. Perhaps you don’t need
to change your job. Change yourself and your work will seem different. - Dr.
Norman Vincent Peale
163. Bad news travels
fast. - Robert Lynd
164. Democracy is the
government of the people, by the people and for the people. - Abraham Lincoln
165. Silence is
unnatural to man. He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness. - Robert
Lynd
166. The secret of life
is to give and take. - Unknown
167. It is better to
light one candle that to curse the darkness. - Unknown
168. Violence and
democracy do not go together. - Unknown
169. Liberty is the
first condition of growth. - Unknown
170. Calamity is the
touchstone of a brave mind. - Unknown
171. Youth is full of
pleasure and age is full of care.- Unknown
172. Where there is no
vision, people perish.- Unknown
1’73. Many are called
but few are chosen. - Unknown
174. Revenge is a kind
of wild justice. - Bacon
175. Life is a tale
told by an idiot full of sound and fury. - Shakespeare
176. The best way to
cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. - Mark twain
177. To see what is
right and not to do it, it was want of courage. - Confucius
178. Give love and love
to your heart will flow. - Madeline Bridges
179. Give to the world
the best that you have and the best will come back to you. - Madeline Bridges
180. There is great
ability in knowing how to conceal one’s ability. - Rochefoucauld
181. Ability is poor
man’s wealth. - M. Wren
182. The great end of
life is not knowledge but action. - Thomas Henry Huxley
183. Admiration is very
short lived passion that immediately’decays upon growing familiarity with its object.
- Addison
184. It is a wise
father that knows his own child. - William Shakespeare
185. Prosperity is not
without many fears and distastes and adversity is not without comforts and
hopes.
- Francis Bacon
186. Adversity
introduces a man to himself.- Avon
187. When a man seeks
your advice, he generally wants your praise. - Chesterfield
188. To accept good
advice is but to increase one’s ability. - Goethe
189. Old wood best to
burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read. - Bacon
190. Anger is short
madness. - Horace
191. Anger is one of
the sinews of soul. ‘- Fuller
192. Art is long and
time is fleeting. - Longfellow
193. A life of
sacrifice is the pinnacle of art and is full of true joy. - Mahatma Gandhi
194. Art lies in concealing
art. - Ovid
195. All art is but
imitation of nature. - Seneca
196. Early to bed and
early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. - Franklin
197. The Bible is a
window in this prison of hope through which we may look into eternity. - Dwight
198. Biography is the
most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading. - Carlyle
199. Better a blush on
the face than blot on the heart. - Cervante
200. Where boasting
ends, there dignity begins. - Young
201. A healthy body is
a guest chamber for the soul and a sick body is a prison. - Bacon
202. If anything is
sacred, the human body is sacred. - Walk Whitman
203. Fools rush in
where angles fear to tread. - Pope
204. Books without the
knowledge of life are useless, for what should books teach but the art of
living.
- Johnson
205. Some books are to
be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
- Bacon
206. Things do not
change, we change. - Thoreau
207. The child is the
father of man. - Wordsworth
208. The childhood
shows the man, as morning shows the day. - Milton
209. Nations like
individuals live and die, but civilization survives. - Mazzini
210. The ultimate
tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. -Hare
211. When we have not
what we like, we must like what we have. - Bussy
212. The greatest test
of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. - R. G. Ingersoll
213. To look upon life
as an evil and treat the world as a delusion is sheer ingratitude.- S. Radha
Krishnan
214. There are two
tragedies in life. One is not to get your bean’s desire. The other is to get
it. - Bernard Szw
215. We live in our
desires rather than in our achievements. - George Moore
216. Disappointment is
the nurse of wisdom. - Sir Boyle Boche
217. There is a divine
purpose behind every physical calamity. - M. K. Gandhi
218. Truth sits upon
the lips of dying man. - Mathew Arnold
219. Eat to please
thyself; but dress to please others. - Franklin
220. Education is the
chief defence of nations. - Burke
221. Education begins
with life. - Franklin
222. One has to achieve
not merely technical efficiency but greatness of spirit. - S. Radha Krishnan
223. It is impossible
for any man not to have some enemies. - Lord Chesterfield
224. All true love is
founded on esteem. -Buckingham
225. Your face is a
book where men may read strange matters. - Shakespeare
226. It is easy to
flatter, it is harder to praise. - Jean Paul Richter
227. Great genius have
the shortest biographies. - Emerson
228. Grave is but the
threshold of eternity.- Southev
229. Gratitude is the
memory of the heart.- J. B. Massieu
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