2026 Reading Challenge

Sam > Sam's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 126
« previous 1 3 4 5
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Henry Ford
    “I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.”
    ― Henry Ford
    tags: innovation
    67 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Steven Johnson
    “Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.”
    ― Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
    tags: ideas, innovation, insightful
    22 likes

    • like
  • #3
    “If Paul Revere had been a modern day citizen, he wouldn't have ridden down Main Street. He would have tweeted.”
    ― Alec Ross
    tags: activism, innovation, politics, technology
    12 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Mark Twain
    “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, politics
    9105 likes

    • like
  • #5
    George Burns
    “Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”
    ― George Burns
    tags: humor, politics
    1228 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Pericles
    “Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. ”
    ― Pericles
    tags: politics
    760 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Charles de Gaulle
    “How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?”
    ― Charles de Gaulle
    tags: cheese, diversity, divisiveness, food, france, politics
    500 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Bill Maher
    “The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them."

    (The Decider, July 21, 2007)”
    ― Bill Maher
    tags: dunning-kruger-effect
    345 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: funny, humor, politics, usa
    339 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Sidney Sheldon
    “the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.”
    ― Sidney Sheldon, The Sands of Time
    tags: politics
    220 likes

    • like
  • #11
    Mark Twain
    “Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.”
    ― Mark Twain (Author)
    tags: politics
    437 likes

    • like
  • #12
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: adaptation, change, open-mindedness, self-improvement
    2784 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Jim Rohn
    “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
    ― Jim Rohn
    tags: education, self-improvement
    1006 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Jim Rohn
    “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
    ― Jim Rohn
    tags: self-improvement
    528 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Steven Wright
    “I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where’s the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.”
    ― Steven Wright
    174 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    177077 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
    114363 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
    77747 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Dr. Seuss
    “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
    tags: inspirational
    33866 likes

    • like
  • #20
    J.K. Rowling
    “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: death, dumbledore, harry, inspirational, philosophers-stone, ron, sorcerers-stone
    25335 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Dr. Seuss
    “A person's a person, no matter how small.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!
    tags: inspirational
    14551 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Audrey Hepburn
    “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”
    ― Audrey Hepburn
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational
    11531 likes

    • like
  • #23
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: inspirational, talent
    8183 likes

    • like
  • #24
    John Milton
    “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: inspirational, religion
    8467 likes

    • like
  • #25
    Haruki Murakami
    “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
    ― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
    tags: inspirational, running
    8515 likes

    • like
  • #26
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: dreams, future, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
    6059 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Walt Disney Company
    “It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”
    ― Walt Disney
    tags: inspirational
    4835 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
    ― Martin Luther King, Jr.
    tags: hope, inspirational
    5699 likes

    • like
  • #29
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    84285 likes

    • like
  • #30
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
    15490 likes



Rss
« previous 1 3 4 5
All Quotes



Tags From Sam’s Quotes

innovation
ideas
insightful
activism
politics
technology
humor
cheese
diversity
divisiveness
food
france
dunning-kruger-effect
funny
usa
adaptation
change
open-mindedness
self-improvement
education
attributed-no-source
be-yourself
gilbert-perreira
honesty
inspirational
misattributed-oscar-wilde
quote-investigator
action
misattributed-to-gandhi
philosophy
wish
carpe-diem
learning
death
dumbledore
harry
philosophers-stone
ron
sorcerers-stone
talent
religion
running
dreams
future
misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
hope
knowledge
wisdom