Quotes 2

Quotes 2

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

“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
– Helen Keller

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
– John Green

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
– J.K. Rowling

“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
– Alexandre Dumas-fils

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.”
– Stephen Chbosky

“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
– Toni Morrison

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
– Paulo Coelho

“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
– Mark Twain

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
– Aristotle

Words to remember:

Labyrinth: amaze; a complicated network of paths in which it is difficult to find the way out.

Conspire: make secret plans with someone to do an unlawful or harmful act.

Quotes 11 to 20

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

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

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
– Helen Keller

“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there”
– George Harrison

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
– John Lennon

“Peace begins with a smile.”
– Mother Teresa

“I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars.”
– Stephenie Meyer

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

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

Words to remember:

Wisdom: knowledge, and good judgment; the quality of being wise.

Alone: having no one else present.

Quotes 21 to 30

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
– Albert Einstein

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
– Oscar Wilde

“What’s meant to be will always find a way”
– Trisha Yearwood

“Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

“I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
– C.S. Lewis

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
– Andre Gide

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

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
– Lao Tzu

“Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.”
– A.A. Milne

Words to remember:

Staircase: a set of stairs and its surrounding walls or structure.

Deeply: far down or in; to a great extent or degree.

Quotes 31 to 40

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
– Pablo Picasso

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”
– William James

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”
– Jim Rohn

“In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.”
– Sophie Kinsella

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
– Maya Angelou

“Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you.”
– Roy T. Bennett,

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
– Vincent Van Gogh

“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Always remember, your focus determines your reality.”
– George Lucas

“The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.”
– Tricia Cunningham

Words to remember:

Therein: in that place, document, or respect; contained in the place that has been mentioned.

Determine: cause to occur in a particular way or nature.

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