Some quotes are just so epic that they’re too hard to forget. They’re written by authors who are full of wisdom when it comes to the different areas of our lives. Here are some epic quotes that we collected to help inspire and motivate you to become a better person and live a meaningful life. Happy reading!
Epic Quotes
1. Never make permanent decisions.
2. Knowledge is having the right answer. Intelligence is asking the right question.
3. I am strong because I’ve been weak.
4. I may look calm, but in my head, I’ve killed you 3 times.
5. Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.
6. Real eyes realize real lies.
7. When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead.
8. I’d rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I’m not.
9. If plan A didn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters.
10. Just because I don’t care doesn’t mean I don’t understand.
11. People generally see what they look for.
12. People should not be afraid of their governments.
13. Two things are infinite. The universe and human stupidity.
14. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
15. I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.
16. I don’t have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit.
17. When nothing goes right, go left.
18. The best thing I like about human beings is that they stack so neatly.
19. The man who has no imagination has no wings.
20. If you’re going through hell, keep going.
21. Don’t like me, cool, I don’t wake up every day to impress you.
22. Nothing is impossible the word itself says I’m possible.
23. Sweetie if you’re going to be two-faced, at least make one of them pretty.
24. My wallet is like an onion.
25. Fish meat is practically a vegetable.
26. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Lao Tzu.
27. Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius
28. The only true wisdom knows you know nothing. – Socrates
29. We know what we are, but know not what we may be. – Shakespeare
30. All of our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. – Disney
31. Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. – Mother Teresa
32. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something. – Plato
33. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Mark Twain
34. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work. – Thomas Edison
35. Not all those who wander are lost. – J.R.R. Tolkien
36. Happiness can only exist in acceptance. – George Orwell
37. It’s far better to be alone than in bad company. – George Washington.
38. Learning never exhausts the mind. – Leonardo Da Vinci
39. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure, the process is its own reward. – Amelia Earhart
40. Always remember that you are absolutely unique, just like everyone else. – Margaret Mead
41. Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw
42. Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘what are you doing for others. – Martin Luther King Jr.
43. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt.
44. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill
45. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle
46. Where there is love, there is life. – Gandhi
47. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. – Robert Lewis Stevenson
48. Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. – Maya Angelou
49. Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. – Oscar Wilde
50. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched they must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller
51. This above all to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
– William Shakespeare
52. The nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.
53. So, the gods don’t hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all. One man may fail to impress us with his looks but a god can crown his words with beauty, charm, and men look on with delight when he speaks out. Never faltering, filled with winning self-control, he shines forth at assembly grounds and people gaze at him like a god when he walks through the streets. Another man may look like a deathless one on high but there’s not a bit of grace to crown his words. – Homer
54. Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things what’s said and what’s done. – Seamus Heaney
55. Fear, what has a man to do with fear. Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day. – Sophocles
56. He oft finds medicine, who his grief imparts, but double grief’s afflict concealing hearts. As raging flames who strives to suppressed. – Edmund Spenser
57. Do not believe that you alone can be right. The man who thinks that, the man who maintains that only he has the power. To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul. A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.–Sophocles
58. It is easy to go down into hell. Night and day, the gates of dark death stand wide. But to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air. There’s the rub, the task. – Virgil
59. When one with honeyed words but evil mind persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. – Euripides
60. Why have you let your mind get so entwined, my master said, that you have slowed your walk. Why should you care about what’s whispered here. Come, follow me, and let these people talk, stand like a sturdy tower that does not shake its summit though the winds may blast, always the man in whom thought thrusts ahead of thought allows the goal he’s set to move far off the force of one thought saps the other’s force. – Dante Alighieri
61. The mind is its own place, and in itself. Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. – John Milton
62. We can only know that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. – Leo Tolstoy
63. A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does, a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask, and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face. – Alexandre Dumas
64. But words are things and a small drop of ink. Falling like a dew, upon a thought produces. That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think. ‘Tis strange, the shortest letter which man uses instead of speech, may form a lasting link of ages to what straits old time reduces frail man, when paper even a rag like this. Survives himself, his tomb and all that’s his. – George Gordon Byron
65. Me thinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of life and death. Me thinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Me thinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air. Me thinks my body is but the lees of my better being. In fact take my body who will take it I say, it is not me. – Herman Melville
66. And this I believe that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. – John Steinbeck
67. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice. Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment. – William Shakespeare
68. It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian, the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth. – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
69. We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us. – Leo Tolstoy
70. In all creation nothing endures, all is in endless flux. Each wandering shape a pilgrim passing by.
71. And time itself glides on in ceaseless flow,a rolling stream and streams can never stay, nor light foot hours. As wave is driven by wave and each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead. So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows. Always, forever and new. What was before is left behind, what never was is now, and every passing moment is renewed. – Ovid
72. Do you hear the people sing lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the earth. There is a flame that never dies, even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. – Victor Hugo
73. Dream Big. Start small. Act now.
74. Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results.
75. Clarity breeds mastery.
76. Education is an inoculation against disruption.
77. A problem is only a problem when viewed as a problem.
78. All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.
79. If you’re not scared a lot you’re not doing very much.
80. Where victims see adversity, extreme achievers see opportunity.
81. The project you are most resisting carries your greatest growth.
82. Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results.
83. Criticism is the price of ambition.
84. Potential unexpressed turns to pain.
85. Ordinary people love entertainment. Extraordinary people adore education.
86. Your daily behavior reveals your deepest beliefs.
87. The only failure is not trying.
88. Focus is more valuable than IQ.
89. To double your income, triple your investment in self-development.
90. Your excuses are nothing more than the lies your fears have sold you.
91. An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production.
92. Life is short. Be of use.
93. So do you want your life to take off. Begin at once to imagine it the way you want it to be and move into that. Check every thought, word, and action that does not fall into harmony with that. Move away from those.
94. When you catch yourself thinking negative thoughts, thoughts that negate your highest idea about a thing think again. I want you to do this, literally. If you think you are in the doldrums, in a pickle, and no good can come of this, think again. If you think the world is a bad place, filled with negative events, think again. If you think your life is falling apart, and it looks as if you’ll never get it back together again, think again.
95. There is nothing scary about life if you are not attached to the results.
96. Choose, but don’t want. Think I choose success, not ‘I want success.
97. There is nothing you cannot be, there is nothing you cannot do. There is nothing you cannot have.
98. The most rapid way to change a root thought, or sponsoring idea, is to reverse the thought word deed process. Do the deed that you want to have the new thought about. Then say the words that you want to have your new thought about. Do this often enough and you’ll train the mind to think a new way.
99. The clouds will pass. The sun will pass too. Our worries, our joys, the same. We are in a constant state of flux, transitioning from one being to another, changing colors like the falling leaves of autumn.
100. It’s funny, this thing called purpose. Often when we face difficulties, those who love us will tell us to keep going because we have a purpose to fulfill. And this is always true. But, what I have learned is that ‘purpose’ may not be cradled in magnificence. In fact, our purpose may be humble, yet, it can be the most significant gesture in another person’s life, no matter how small. Perhaps, the gesture may even be towards yourself, fulfilling a purpose towards yourself.
101. Conscious laughter is powerful and poignant. There is no mistaking its destination, the giver and the receiver, the heart.
102. What’s been done is done, and it’s done. The past is done with you, yet, you grip onto it so tightly. Try to focus your mind on the present moment, as much as possible.
103. You realize in life, that the big moments we often anticipate for so long matter less over time, than the continuation of the precious small moments over the course of this lifetime.
104. None of what we do on this earth is meant to be stored away, not even loneliness. We are a creative force and as such, we simply must share.
105. When you have fallen in life and people walk away, let them. For it is only the bravest who will stick by your side, and likewise, you will be one of the bravest at the side of your brethren when they fall too. For everyone falls at least once in their lifetime.
106. Sometimes, you need to remove all the distractions, breathe and reflect. It seems rather bizarre in our to-do list culture that the simple act of awareness often brings about a sense of grounding, peace, acceptance, and truth.
107. When you find someone sincere, keep them, keep them, and keep them. For the mark of sincerity bears well upon a man’s face, and the mark of insincerity bears a heavy burden upon a man’s heart.
108. If there is one common thing among us humans, it’s the hope for a better tomorrow.
109. First, we eat, then we do everything else. – M.F.K. Fisher
110. One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating. – Luciano Pavarotti
111. Don’t judge your taco by its price. – Hunter S. Thompson
112. I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them. – Oscar Wilde
113. All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. – John Gunther
114. Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go. – Anthony Bourdain
115. Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. – Ernestine Ulmer
116. People who love to eat are always the best people. – Julia Child
117. I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller. – Michael Palin
118. A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into. – George Orwell
119. Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. – Mark Twain
120. Great art is horseshit, buy tacos. – Charles Bukowski
121. Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the titanic who waved off the dessert cart. – Erma Bombeck
122. There is no sincerer love than the love of food. – George Bernard Shaw
123. Good people drink good beer. – Hunter S. Thompson
124. Life is a combination of magic and pasta. – Federico Fellini
125. My doctor told me I had to stop throwing intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people. – Orson Welles
126. What’s the good of resisting temptation, there’ll always be more. – Mae West
127. Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie. – Jim Davis
128. The only thing I like better than talking about food is eating. – John Walters
129. Drink heavily with locals whenever possible. – Anthony Bourdain
130. The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later, you’re hungry again. – George Miller
131. I am not a glutton, I am an explorer of food. – Erma Bombeck
132. It’s fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That’s what human life is all about enjoying things. – Julia Child
133. You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I’ll buy you a new car. – Harvey Diamond
134. You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. – Dr. Suess
135. I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best. -Marilyn Monroe
136. Get busy living or get busy dying. – Stephen King
137. The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. – Mark Caine
138. 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
139. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. – Mark Twain
140. When I dare to be powerful to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. – Audre Lorde
141. Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. – Eleanor Roosevelt
142. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. – David Brinkley
143. Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. – John F. Kennedy
144. I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure try to please everybody all the time. – Herbert Bayard Swope
145. Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success. – Thomas J. Watson
146. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. – Theodore Roosevelt
147. I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down. – Abraham Lincoln
148. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. – Lucille Ball
149. Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. – Mother Theresa
150. Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. – Joshua J. Marine
151. Love is a serious mental disease. – Plato
152. Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. – Francis Chan
153. It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. – Leonardo Da Vinci
154. Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
155. It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. – J. K Rowling
156. Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. – Pablo Picasso
157. If you want to be happy, be. – Leo Tolstoy
158. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas A. Edison
159. If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. – Albert Einstein
160. Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there’s an element of talent you should probably possess. But if you just stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen. – Dax Shepard
161. The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. – Elie Wiesel
162. The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without. – Elie Wiesel
163. I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. – Henry Ward Beecher
164. It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life. – Sigmund Freud
165. A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. – Jim Morrison
166. Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. – Babe Ruth
167. Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
168. Life is trying things to see if they work. – Ray Bradbury
169. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. – David Rockefeller
170. The number 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors. – Napoleon Hill