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Quotes

Here you will find inspiring and motivational quotes from various authors, successful leaders, and entrepreneurs.

There are ten quotes per block and in each block, there are two words with explanations.

The explanations are after the quotes in a section called: Words to Remember.

Study and learn English, by reading the quotes and understanding their meaning.

Quotes 1 to 10

“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success”
– Alexander Graham Bell

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
– Walt Disney

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
– Helen Keller

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more, and all good things will be yours.”
– Swedish Proverb

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
– Oscar Wilde

“It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.”
– Howard Ruff

“Every new day begins with possibilities. It’s up to us to fill it with things that move us toward progress and peace.”
– Ronald Reagan

There is nothing permanent except change.
– Heraclitus

“It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.”
– George Washington

Words to remember:

Breathe: take air into the lungs and then expel it.

Toward: in the direction of.

Quotes 11 to 20

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“So many books, so little time.”
– Frank Zappa

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
– Robert Frost

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
– Mark Twain

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
– Plato

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
– Mark Twain

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
– Albert Einstein

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
– Allen Saunders

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
– William Shakespeare

Words to remember:

Conscience: the sense of right or wrong.

Knowledge: facts, information, and skills acquired through experience or education.

Quotes 21 to 30

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
– Mother Teresa

“We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.”
– Helen Keller

“If you can’t explain it to a six-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.”
– Albert Einstein

“Sometimes the questions are complicated, and the answers are simple.”
– Dr. Seuss

“I love mankind… it’s people I can’t stand!”
– Charles M. Schulz

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
– George R. R. Martin

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
– C.S. Lewis

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
– Nicolas Chamfort

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
– Socrates

“If you miss love, you miss life.”
– Leo Buscaglia

Words to remember:

Wasted: a day wasted is a day useless, unnecessary, pointless, or needless.

Wisdom: the quality of having experience or knowledge.

Quotes 31 to 40

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
– Albert Einstein

“It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
– Marlene Dietrich

“Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn’t make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
– Plato

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
– Voltaire

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
– Albert Einstein

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston S. Churchill

“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
– Dale Carnegie

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
– Pablo Picasso

Words to remember:

Amusements: the experience of finding something funny.

Courage: bravery.

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