Misattributed Quotes

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
― Jimi Hendrix

“People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
― Ray Bradbury

“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
― Lao Tzu

“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
― Anne Frank

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are”
― Kurt Cobain

“When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”
― Dinah Maria Craik

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“You never know what you have till you've lost it.”
― Alyson Noel, Evermore

“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.”
― Kurt Cobain

“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
― Harry S. Truman

“For what it’s worth... it’s never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit. Start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you’ve never felt before. I hope you meet people who have a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start over again.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.”
― Robert Anthony

“Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.”
― Joseph Fort Newton

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
― Taylor Caldwell, A Pillar of Iron

“Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

“I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”
― Karl Marx

“There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.”
― Ronald Reagan

“We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”
― Albert Einstein

“There is another world, but it is in this one.”
― William Butler Yeats

“Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.”
― William Barclay, The Gospel of Luke - Enlarged Print Edition