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The Times Great Quotations: Famous quotes to inform, motivate and inspire

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2018
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Come, my friends. ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

Ulysses (1833)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (1809–1892)



One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

Les faux-monnayeurs (1925)

Andrе Gide, French writer (1869–1951)



A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupеry, French writer (1900–1944)



Nurture your minds with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Benjamin Disraeli, prime minister of the UK (1804–1881)



We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.

Benjamin Disraeli, prime minister of the UK (1804–1881)



There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go — if there are no doors or windows — he walks through a wall.

Rembrandt’s Hat (1972)

Bernard Malamud, American writer (1914–1986)



By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer (1451–1506)



In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

Dalai Lama, Tibetan monk of the Gelug school (1935–)



Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Against Leptines (c. 385/4 BC)

Demosthenes, Greek orator and Athenian statesman (c. 384–322 BC)



Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Edmund Burke, Irish philosopher and statesman (1729–1797)



I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.

Edward Everett Hale, American writer (1822–1909)



What we’re saying today is that you’re either part of the solution or you’re part of the problem.

[Speech in San Francisco, 1968]

Eldridge Cleaver, American political activist (1935–1998)



I am here to live out loud.

Еmile Zola, French writer (1840–1902)



Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

Man for Himself (1947)

Erich Fromm, German philosopher and psychologist (1900–1980)



You see things; and you say, “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say, “Why not?”

Methuselah (1903)
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