2026 Reading Challenge

Tracy > Tracy's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 34
« previous 1
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
    135513 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    92184 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
    43885 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Sun Tzu
    “When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.”
    ― Sun Tzu
    272 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
    81811 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
    114365 likes

    • like
  • #7
    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
  • #8
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
    34014 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: women
    21194 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Virginia Woolf
    “When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: life
    2660 likes

    • like
  • #11
    “If it looks good,
    you'll see it.
    If it sounds good,
    you'll hear it.
    If it's marketed right,
    you'll buy it.
    But...if it's real,
    you'll feel it.”
    ― Kid Rock
    7 likes

    • like
  • #12
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
    64645 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
    69681 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
    74331 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    130150 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational
    23866 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Charles J. Sykes
    “Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”
    ― Charles J. Sykes, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write or Add
    tags: humor, misattributed-to-bill-gates, nerd, nerds, work
    15555 likes

    • like
  • #18
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
    33846 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
    45231 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
    119060 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
    43662 likes

    • like
  • #22
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
    45297 likes

    • like
  • #23
    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
    40999 likes

    • like
  • #24
    Bob Marley
    “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: music
    23151 likes

    • like
  • #25
    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
    18232 likes

    • like
  • #26
    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
    ― François de La Rochefoucauld
    tags: cynical, life, truth
    3274 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Tom Robbins
    “Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.”
    ― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
    tags: women-religion
    143 likes

    • like
  • #28
    George Carlin
    “I'm completely in favor of the
    separation of Church and State.
    ... These two institutions screw us up enough
    on their own, so both of them together is
    certain death.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: organized-religion, politics, religion
    1385 likes

    • like
  • #29
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: fantasy, literature, philosophy
    5669 likes

    • like
  • #30
    Galileo Galilei
    “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
    ― Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
    tags: bible, christianity, evolution, science
    970 likes



Rss
« previous 1
All Quotes



Tags From Tracy’s Quotes

attributed-no-source
books
simile
soul
lies
lying
memory
truth
individuality
majority
minority
pause
reflect
wisdom
enemies
forgiveness
strategy
action
change
inspirational
misattributed-to-gandhi
philosophy
wish
carpe-diem
education
learning
paraphrased
strength
women
life
humor
insanity
misattributed-ben-franklin
misattributed-mark-twain
misattributed-to-einstein
accomplishment
be-yourself
conformity
music
ataraxy
confidence
fitting-in
misattributed-dr-seuss
those-who-matter
misattributed-to-bill-gates
nerd
nerds
work
misattributed
source-unknown
dragons
fairy-tales
paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
fate
misattributed-john-lennon
planning
plans
aliteracy
literacy
cynical
women-religion
organized-religion
politics
religion
fantasy
literature
bible
christianity
evolution
science