50 Life Quotes By Famous People
50 fascinating life quotes by famous people, including a short biography of the quote author.
![“The Only Impossible Journey is the One You Never Begin.” - Tony Robbins](https://thequotebag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/50-Quotes-By-Famous-People-01.jpg)
Anthony Jay Robbins is an American author, philanthropist, and life coach. Robbins is known for his infomercials, seminars, and self-help books including Unlimited Power and Awaken the Giant Within. Wikipedia
Stephen Edwin King is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, many of which have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television series, and comic books. Wikipedia
![“Be yourself; everybody else is already taken.” - Oscar Wilde](https://thequotebag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/50-Quotes-By-Famous-People-03.jpg)
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Wikipedia
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, model, and singer. Famous for playing comic “blonde bombshell” characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s and was emblematic of the era’s changing attitudes towards sexuality. Wikipedia
![“If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?” - Joe Namath](https://thequotebag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/50-Quotes-By-Famous-People-05.jpg)
Joseph William Namath, is a former American football quarterback and actor. He played professional football in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL) during the 1960’s and 1970’s. Wikipedia
Sir Colin Rex Davis was an English conductor, known for his association with the London Symphony Orchestra, having first conducted it in 1959. His repertoire was broad, but among the composers with whom he was particularly associated were Mozart, Berlioz, Elgar, Sibelius, Stravinsky and Tippett. Wikipedia
![“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” - Oprah Winfrey](https://thequotebag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/50-Quotes-By-Famous-People-07.jpg)
Oprah Gail Winfrey is an American media executive, actress, talk show host, television producer and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history. Wikipedia
Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Wikipedia
![“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.” - Wayne Gretzky](https://thequotebag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/50-Quotes-By-Famous-People-09.jpg)
Wayne Douglas Gretzky is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and former head coach. He played 20 seasons in the National Hockey League for four teams from 1979 to 1999. Nicknamed “The Great One”, he has been called “the greatest hockey player ever” by many sportswriters, players, and the league itself. Wikipedia
Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in America. Wikipedia
![“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” – Charles Swindoll](https://thequotebag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/50-Quotes-By-Famous-People-11.jpg)
Charles Rozell “Chuck” Swindoll is an evangelical Christian pastor, author, educator, and radio preacher. He founded Insight for Living, headquartered in Frisco, Texas, which airs a radio program of the same name on more than 2,000 stations around the world in 15 languages. Wikipedia
Malcolm X was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. Wikipedia
![“I freed a thousand slaves, I could of freed a thousand more, if only they knew they were slaves.” - Harriet Tubman](https://thequotebag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/50-Quotes-By-Famous-People-13.jpg)
Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved people, family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. Wikipedia
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. Wikipedia
![“Life is what happens, when you busy making other plans.” - John Lennon](https://thequotebag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/50-Quotes-By-Famous-People-15.jpg)
John Winston Ono Lennon was an English singer, songwriter and peace activist who co-founded the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music. Wikipedia
Charles Haddon Spurgeon was an English Particular Baptist preacher. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, among whom he is known as the “Prince of Preachers”. Wikipedia
![“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” - William Shakespeare](https://thequotebag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/50-Quotes-By-Famous-People-17.jpg)
William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s greatest dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon”. Wikipedia
Nathan Hale was an American soldier and spy for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He volunteered for an intelligence-gathering mission in New York City but was captured by the British and executed. Wikipedia
![“Those who dare to fail miserably, can achieve greatly.” - John F. Kennedy](https://thequotebag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/50-Quotes-By-Famous-People-19.jpg)
John Fitzgerald “Jack” Kennedy, often referred to by initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. Wikipedia
Nicholas Charles Sparks is an American romance novelist and screenwriter. He has published twenty novels and two non-fiction books. Several of his novels have become international bestsellers, and eleven of his romantic-drama novels have been adapted to film all with multimillion-dollar box office earnings. Wikipedia
![“Better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.” - St. Augustine](https://thequotebag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/50-Quotes-By-Famous-People-21.jpg)
Saint Augustine of Hippo was a Roman African, early Christian theologian and philosopher from Numidia whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy. Wikipedia
Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. He worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery fiction. Wikipedia
![“Strive not to be a success but rather to be of value.” - Albert Einstein](https://thequotebag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/50-Quotes-By-Famous-People-23.jpg)
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. Wikipedia
Virgil Garnett Thomson was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the “American Sound” in classical music. Wikipedia
![“Keep you face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow” - Helen Keller](https://thequotebag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/50-Quotes-By-Famous-People-25.jpg)
Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. Wikipedia
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. Wikipedia
![“Be happy for this moment, this moment is your life” - Omar Khayyam](https://thequotebag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/50-Quotes-By-Famous-People-27.jpg)
Omar Khayyam was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet. He was born in Nishapur, in northeastern Iran, and spent most of his life near the court of the Karakhanid and Seljuq rulers in the period which witnessed the First Crusade. Wikipedia
Colin Luther Powell is an American politician and retired four-star general in the United States Army. Wikipedia
![“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is ones destiny to do and then do it” - Henry Ford](https://thequotebag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/50-Quotes-By-Famous-People-29.jpg)
Henry Ford was an American industrialist and a business magnate, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. Wikipedia
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American political figure, diplomat and activist. She served as the First Lady of the United States from March 4, 1933 to April 12, 1945 during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four terms in office, making her the longest serving First Lady of the United States. Wikipedia
![“Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it” - Salvador Dali](https://thequotebag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/50-Quotes-By-Famous-People-31.jpg)
– Salvador Dali
Salvador Dalí was a prominent Spanish surrealist born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, painter and printmaker, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. Wikipedia
Steven Paul Jobs was an American business magnate and investor. He was the chairman, chief executive officer, and co-founder of Apple Inc. Wikipedia
![“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired” - Robert Frost](https://thequotebag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/50-Quotes-By-Famous-People-33.jpg)
Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in America. Wikipedia
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the “greatest humorist this country has produced”, and William Faulkner called him “the father of American literature”. Wikipedia
![“It always seems impossible until it’s done” - Nelson Mandela](https://thequotebag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/50-Quotes-By-Famous-People-35.jpg)
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country’s first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. Wikipedia
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Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin. Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, Gulliver’s Travels, and A Modest Proposal. Wikipedia
![“Life has no limitations, except the ones you make” - Les Brown](https://thequotebag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/50-Quotes-By-Famous-People-37.jpg)
Leslie Calvin “Les” Brown is an American motivational speaker, author, radio DJ, former television host. As a former politician, he was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives. As a motivational speaker, he uses the catch phrase “it’s possible!” and teaches people to follow their dreams as he learned to do. Wikipedia
Oprah Gail Winfrey is an American media executive, actress, talk show host, television producer and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history. Wikipedia
![“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing” - Walt Disney](https://thequotebag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/50-Quotes-By-Famous-People-39.jpg)
Walter Elias Disney was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. Wikipedia
Vidal Sassoon was a British-American hairstylist, businessman, and philanthropist. He was noted for re-popularizing a simple, close-cut geometric hair style called the bob cut, worn by famous fashion designers. Wikipedia
![“Well done, is better than well said” - Benjamin Franklin](https://thequotebag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/50-Quotes-By-Famous-People-41.jpg)
Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. He worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery fiction. Wikipedia
George Smith Patton Jr. was a General of the United States Army who commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, and the U.S. Third Army in France and Germany following D-Day: the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Wikipedia
![“I find the harder i work, the more luck I seem to have” - Thomas Jefferson](https://thequotebag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/50-Quotes-By-Famous-People-43.jpg)
Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. Previously, he had served as the second vice president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Wikipedia
Harriett Jackson Brown Jr. is an American author best known for his inspirational book, Life’s Little Instruction Book, which was a New York Times bestseller. Its sequel Life’s Little Instruction Book: Volume 2 also made it to the same best seller list in 1993. Wikipedia
![“You must be the change you wish to see in the world” - Gandhi](https://thequotebag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/50-Quotes-By-Famous-People-45.jpg)
Mahatma Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political figure, who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India’s independence from British Rule, and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Wikipedia
George Herman “Babe” Ruth Jr. was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. Wikipedia
![“Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life” - John Wooden](https://thequotebag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/50-Quotes-By-Famous-People-47.jpg)
John Robert Wooden was an American basketball player and head coach at the University of California, Los Angeles. Nicknamed the “Wizard of Westwood,” he won ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year period as head coach at UCLA, including a record seven in a row. Wikipedia
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the “greatest humorist this country has produced”, and William Faulkner called him “the father of American literature”. Wikipedia
![“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” - Mae West](https://thequotebag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/50-Quotes-By-Famous-People-49.jpg)
Mary Jane “Mae” West was an American actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter, comedian, and sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned seven decades. She was known for her lighthearted, bawdy double entendres and breezy sexual independence. Wikipedia
Jason Thomas Mraz is an American singer-songwriter who first came to prominence in the San Diego coffee shop scene in 2000. In 2002 he released his debut studio album, Waiting for My Rocket to Come, which contained the hit single “The Remedy”. Wikipedia