36 best quotes by famous authors to inspire you

03/31/2025 by

If you’re looking for some of the best quotes by famous authors, then I have 36 great quotes to inspire you today. I’m confident that they will all get you thinking.

So, take a few minutes to read them all and then see how many of them you can work into your day.

Perhaps you have a presentation to do in the office? Well, a good quote to stress your underlying message is always a good idea. Maybe one of these would fit perfectly?

Enjoy them all and please feel free to pass them on.

Best quotes by famous authors (1-12)

It hurt because it mattered. ~John Green

To thine own self be true. ~William Shakespeare

Life’s not fair; why should I be? ~Margaret Atwood

You cannot find peace by avoiding life. ~Virginia Woolf

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears. ~Rumi

Straight roads do not make skilful drivers. ~Paula Coelho

Each moment is a place you’ve never been. ~Mark Strand

There is always something left to love. ~Gabriel García Márquez

To avoid criticism: say nothing, do nothing, be nothing. ~Aristotle

Everything is hard before it is easy. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose. ~C.S. Lewis

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. ~Henry David Thoreau

Best quotes by famous authors (13-24)

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~Plato

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. ~J.K. Rowling

Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight. ~Stephen King

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. ~Albert Einstein

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. ~Oscar Wilde

When you can’t change the direction of the wind, adjust your sails. ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. ~Maya Angelou

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real, too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win. ~Stephen King

I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival. ~Audre Lorde

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. ~Ray Bradbury

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ~Mark Twain

It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default. ~J.K. Rowling

Best quotes by famous authors (25-36)

It is never too late to be what you might have been. ~George Eliot

Self-awareness and self-love matter. Who we are is how we lead. ~Brene Brown

No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments. ~Regina Brett

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. ~George Orwell

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. ~Samuel Johnson

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

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. ~Alice Walker

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. ~Kurt Vonnegut

Challenges make life interesting, however, overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. ~Mark Twain

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. ~Neil Gaiman

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself and half-believed before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here. ~James Baldwin

There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having. ~Terry Pratchett

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21 thought-provoking quotes about fake friends

03/30/2025 by

Today I thought it would be interesting to explore some quotes about fake friends.

How often do you hear people say, “Oh, I have many friends?“

For a very lucky few, that may be true. However, most of the time, it’s not true at all.

Almost always, real friends can be counted on the fingers of one hand with some fingers to spare.

For me, a real friend is someone I could phone at 2 am if I was in serious trouble and be confident that they’d be straight out to help me in a heartbeat.

Everyone else is just people I know with varying degrees of familiarity.

Yes, there is a broader circle of people with whom I socialise occasionally but my close friends are those I know I can count on when the chips are down.

Many people we know tend to be ‘fair-weather friends‘ and some of them will be genuinely fake. There when it suits them but otherwise they care little for us.

So, when it comes to friends, we have to learn to differentiate the real from the not-so-real. A real friend will enter your life just as the rest of the world is leaving.

Here are 21 thought-provoking quotes about fake friends to help you with that process.

Quotes about fake friends (1-10)

You don’t lose when you lose fake friends. ~Joan Jett

A fake friend is an enemy in disguise. ~Ellen J. Barrier 

Better an honest enemy than a false friend. ~German Proverb

I didn’t lose a friend; I just realized I never had one. ~Author Unknown

Make sure the lions you roll with aren’t snakes in disguise.  ~Genereux Philip

True friends cry when you leave. Fake friends leave when you cry. ~Author Unknown

Pay close attention to the people who don’t clap when you win. ~Author Unknown

Growing up means realizing a lot of your friends aren’t really your friends. ~Author Unknown

Fake friends: once they stop talking to you, they start talking about you. ~Author Unknown

The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies. ~Author Unknown

Quotes about fake friends (11-21)

Sometimes it’s not the people who change it’s the mask that falls off. ~Author Unknown

True friends will always find a way to help you. Fake friends will always find an excuse. ~Author Unknown

You never lose friends. Real ones will always stay, no matter what and the fakes, you don’t need them anyway. ~Drishti Bablani

As we grow up, we realize it becomes less important to have a ton of friends and more important to have real ones. ~Author Unknown

The same person that speaks highly of you will be the same person that downs you. Be careful who you call friends. ~Author Unknown

You don’t lose friends because real friends can never be lost. You lose people masquerading as friends and you’re better for it. ~Mandy Hale

A true friend cares about what’s going on in your life. A fake friend will make their problems sound bigger. Be a true friend. ~Author Unknown

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. ~Buddha

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. ~Richard Burton

I’ve got more respect for someone who comes out and says they don’t like me than for the ones who act like they do but talk bad about me when I’m not around. ~Mitchell Perry

Everybody isn’t your friend. Just because they hang around you and laugh with you doesn’t mean they’re your friends. People pretend well. Real situations expose fake people. So pay attention. ~Author Unknown

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Building personal branding for success

03/30/2025 by

Personal branding for success:

Personal branding says something about you. And personal branding for success is something that you should take seriously if your aim is to be successful.

How you present yourself to the world is being judged all the time, and people will draw conclusions about you based simply on their perception of you and how you look.

That may not seem fair, but in my experience, it’s almost always true. And reputations can often be built largely based on other people’s perception of you.

So, is personal branding something that matters to you, dear reader?

In your opinion, does it matter what you look like, how you dress, how you speak, or what people see in your digital footprint on social media and elsewhere? Certainly, it should do.

What do you think? Does your reputation matter to you?

Perhaps you believe that the only thing that matters is the quality of the work that you do?

If that’s true, then you may not see the need to worry about your personal branding.

However, I can assure you, you really are being judged all of the time, whether you like it or not.

The importance of personal branding:

Think about it for one moment. Now, how often have you walked into an open-plan office area looking for a manager you’ve not met, and yet you have no trouble spotting who he or she is immediately?

You just can’t miss them, can you? There’s just something about them that says, ‘I am the manager!‘ Well, that’s personal branding.

It’s the same thing with social media.

How you conduct yourself within your digital footprint will speak volumes about you, and it will have an impact on how you’re perceived by others.

A silly remark on social media about other people or the latest news can prove very costly and may have implications in future years because it could suggest something about your judgement, or lack of it.

Jobs have been lost and people have been forced to resign over ill-judged comments made on social media, often many years before.

So you have to ask yourself, do I want to be successful in my chosen field?

If you do, then you must ensure that your personal branding is consistent with your ambition. To be the one, you must look like the one in every respect.

You must also promote yourself in the right way at every opportunity.

Self-promotion is important because it’s all about selling yourself and making sure you’re perceived by the world in the way you’d prefer to be perceived.

If you don’t sell yourself and create the right image for yourself, then no one else is going to do it for you, that’s for sure. Constantly working on your personal branding must be part of your strategy for achieving success.

The good news is that with WordPress, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media channels, it’s never been easier to promote yourself, create the right image, build relationships, and tell the world what it is you have to offer.

So the obvious question now is, where do you start on building a personal brand?

Building a personal brand:

In the video below, recorded at TEDxCMU 2011, Jacob Cass presents some interesting and useful ideas as to how you can go about building your personal brand.

This video will provide you with some useful tips and it’s well worth watching.

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30 witty quotes that’ll make anyone smile

03/29/2025 by

Blog posts that include something to make readers smile always get a good response. Witty quotes always get the best response.

So here are 30 razor-sharp witty quotes. I am sure at least a few of them will brighten your day.

This is a collection of witty quotes in response to readers’ requests for a little levity to break up the otherwise gloomy news that seems to have dominated our lives this year.

So go on have a laugh right now and enjoy them all.

Witty Quotes (1-10)

I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it. ~Mae West

When you’re in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, ‘Damn, that was fun’. ~Groucho Marx

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done the day after tomorrow just as well. ~Mark Twain

Women and cats will do as they please and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. ~Robert A. Heinlein

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. ~Oscar Wilde

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ~W.C. Fields

My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best. ~Winston S. Churchill

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. ~George Burns

Two wrongs don’t make a right but they do make a good excuse. ~Thomas Szasz

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day. ~A.A. Milne

Witty Quotes (11-20)

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? ~Laurence J. Peter

If at first, you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it. ~W.C. Fields

Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away. ~Paul Terry

When you’re courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity. ~Albert Einstein

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? ~George Carlin

It ain’t over ‘til it’s over. ~Yogi Berra

I need six months’ vacation, twice a year. ~Author Unknown

I do all my own stunts but never intentionally. ~Author Unknown

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves? ~Robin Williams

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. ~Author Unknown

Witty Quotes (21-30)

Hard work never killed anyone but why take a chance? ~Edgar Bergen

I’d like to live like a poor man, only with lots of money. ~Pablo Picasso

No man goes before his time, unless the boss leaves early. ~Groucho Marx

Age is something that doesn’t matter unless you’re a cheese. ~Luis Buñuel

The man who says his wife can’t take a joke forgets she took him. ~Oscar Wilde

I always cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food. ~W.C. Fields

To err is human; to blame it on someone else shows management potential. ~Author Unknown

Always borrow money from a pessimist. They’ll never expect it back. ~Author Unknown

If you’re not supposed to eat at night, why is there a light in the refrigerator? ~Author Unknown

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island, what book I would take with me? …. “How to Build a Boat” would be the answer. ~Author Unknown

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15 classic quotes by Yogi Berra that’ll make you think

03/29/2025 by

Yogi Berra was a man with a memorable turn of phrase and a unique way of making a point. Today, I offer you 15 quotes by Yogi Berra to illustrate my point.

Born Lorenzo Pietro Berra to Italian immigrants, Yogi Berra was an American professional baseball player.

He was a catcher who later took on the roles of manager and coach.

He played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball, all but the last for the New York Yankees.

If you’re looking for memorable quotes to use in a presentation, Yogi Berra’s quotes would be an excellent choice, I think.

They always nail an underlying point while being concise and memorable.

Read on and see if you agree with me.

Quotes by Yogi Berra:

  1. It ain’t over till it’s over. ~Yogi Berra
  2. A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore. ~Yogi Berra
  3. You can observe a lot by watching. ~Yogi Berra
  4. The future ain’t what it used to be. ~Yogi Berra
  5. It’s like deja-vu, all over again. ~Yogi Berra
  6. When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it. ~Yogi Berra
  7. You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you. ~Yogi Berra
  8. If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be. ~Yogi Berra
  9. Even Napoleon had his Watergate. ~Yogi Berra
  10. There are some people who, if they don’t already know, you can’t tell ’em. ~Yogi Berra
  11. If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. ~Yogi Berra
  12. In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. ~Yogi Berra
  13. Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours. ~Yogi Berra
  14. I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. ~Yogi Berra
  15. I tell the kids, somebody’s gotta win, somebody’s gotta lose. Just don’t fight about it. Just try to get better. ~Yogi Berra

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50 insurance quotes you just can’t ignore

03/29/2025 by

If you’re looking for insurance quotes today, you may or may not have come to the right place.

If your aim is to purchase insurance, then I must apologise. I’m not in the business of selling insurance.

However, I am in the business of exploring different subjects and then curating interesting quotes by fascinating people who have something to say on that subject.

Today I thought it would be interesting to explore the subject of insurance and see what people had to say about it.

Essentially, insurance is the transfer of risk. The bigger the risk, the more we need to ensure we’re covered against it if we’re not to end up penniless or worse.

So here are 50 insurance quotes by people who have something interesting, and occasionally amusing, to say about the subject.

I hope you find them as interesting as I did.

If that’s the case, please feel free to pass them on.

Insurance Quotes (1-10):

  1. Health insurance should be a given for every citizen. ~Jesse Ventura
  2. Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders. ~Ronald Reagan
  3. There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? ~Woody Allen
  4. Everyone should have health insurance. I say everyone should have health care. I’m not selling insurance. ~Dennis Kucinich
  5. Even if I might say to myself, ‘I don’t need health insurance. I won’t get sick,’ the fact is, as human beings with mortality, we are going to get sick, and it’s unpredictable when. ~Neal Katyal
  6. Your FICO score is an “I love debt” score. You’re going to pay a bazillion dollars in interest to keep your FICO score up in order to have lower homeowners and car insurance rates. ~Dave Ramsey
  7. Without health insurance, getting sick or injured could mean going bankrupt, going without needed care, or even dying needlessly. ~Jan Schakowsky
  8. For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull. ~Ralph Nader
  9. As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time. ~Magic Johnson
  10. My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated it and hated him for dying and leaving no money because he didn’t trust life insurance salesmen. ~Sylvia Plath 

Insurance Quotes (11-20):

  1. Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies. ~P. J. O’Rourke
  2. It is not good not to have health insurance; that leaves the family very vulnerable. ~Elizabeth Warren
  3. If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance. ~Suze Orman
  4. I don’t want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too. ~Jack Benny
  5. Lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies. ~Thomas Sowell
  6. Insurance – an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. ~Ambrose Bierce
  7. Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don’t know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics. ~Jesse Jackson
  8. People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel. ~Daniel Kahneman
  9. The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you. ~Alan Coren
  10. Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany. ~Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Insurance Quotes (21-30):

  1. Health care’s not about insurance! Health care’s about getting treatment. ~P. J. O’Rourke
  2. You never fully appreciate the value of an insurance policy until the day you need it. ~Roy Sutton
  3. Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk. ~Charles Duhigg
  4. Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance. ~Ernst Zundel
  5. It’s very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted. ~Daniel Kahneman
  6. Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it. ~William Penn
  7. The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it’s always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance. ~Suze Orman
  8. Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers to the future well-being of their families. ~James Surowiecki
  9. I am fighting kidney cancer. And I’m just so grateful that I had health insurance so that I could concentrate on the care that I needed rather than how the heck I was going to afford the care that was going to probably save my life. ~Mazie Hirono
  10. When citizens believe that the elite care more about those across the ocean than those across the train tracks, insurance has broken down, we divide into factions, and those who are left behind become angry and disillusioned with a politics that no longer serves them. ~Angus Deaton

Insurance Quotes (31-40):

  1. Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance. ~Corrine Brown
  2. I actually lost 90 pounds over the course of 15 months in order to save money on life insurance. ~Derek Kilmer
  3. The availability of private insurance provides tremendous insulation for millions of individuals. ~Lawrence Summers
  4. Even when I was a teen model, I didn’t think it was fair that I had to enter the acting world to get insurance. ~Tyra Banks
  5. Even families with health insurance are quite vulnerable to a severe economic reversal if someone gets sick. ~Elizabeth Warren
  6. I’ve never been able to sky-dive, and I’ve always wanted to. I’ve probably done everything else, but for some reason, the insurance company won’t let me do it. ~Nick Cannon
  7. What the insurance companies have done is reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies. ~Gerry Spence
  8. The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates. ~Mary Landrieu
  9. For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance. ~Ben Nelson
  10. It puts the provider in a situation of looking for ways to have someone else pick up a piece of the cost. As a result, every customer who has insurance ends up paying a ‘hidden premium.’ It simply adds to the healthcare cost burden. ~Dave Obey

Insurance Quotes (41-50):

  1. Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed. ~Don Rickles
  2. One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that’s a truly staggering figure. ~John M. McHugh
  3. Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others. ~Patrick J. Kennedy
  4. If it’s really so wonderful that both partners have to work to make a living to pay for their house, for health insurance, someone is obviously going to get the short end of the stick. ~Eric Braeden
  5. The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They’ve lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance. ~Ron Chernow
  6. The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there’s no check-off box for you, you don’t exist. ~Jack Anderson
  7. Most illegals are without health insurance, and when these workers need emergency healthcare, the American taxpayer gets stuck with the bill. ~Spencer Bachus
  8. Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation’s healthcare delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels. ~Jim Ryun
  9. Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit healthcare inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy. ~John Conyers
  10. The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to affordable flood insurance that would not be available on the open market. ~Gary Miller

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35 of the best one-liners ever. You’ll love them all

03/29/2025 by

Today I offer you some of the best one-liners ever. Well, they are, in my opinion, at least.

I love a great one-liner, and these are all brilliant. They’re amusing, sharp, and very witty. I hope at least one or two of them will brighten your day.

So take a couple of minutes and enjoy them all.

And please feel free to share them.

Best one-liners ever (1-12)

Am I indecisive? I’m not sure.

The older I get, the earlier it gets late.

Where there’s a will, there’s a relative.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

A clean house suggests there’s no WiFi.

Not all math puns are terrible. Just sum.

It takes a lot of balls to play golf the way I do.

I started with nothing, and I’ve still got most of it.

Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

When life gives you melons, you could be dyslexic.

You say you’re a compulsive liar, but I don’t believe you.

Since I had my neck brace fitted I’ve never looked back.

Best one-liners ever (13-24)

A liberal is just a conservative who hasn’t been mugged yet.

Yeah? You and whose army?

What did your last slave die of?

Yes, I’ve had a good time, but this wasn’t it.

If I didn’t have bad luck, I’d have no luck at all.

You look like you’ve found a dime and lost a dollar.

Keep crying and I’ll give you something to cry about.

My life’s as good as anyone’s if their life’s truly awful.

Keep looking like that and your face will stay that way.

Well, you certainly look like you’ve got the face you deserve.

Am I looking at you? Why? Do I look like I’ve got nothing better to do?

With a face like that, you must have done something terrible in a previous life.

Best one-liners ever (25-35)

Don’t be a fool all your life, take five minutes off and give the rest of us a break.

Drive like an idiot and it won’t be long before you’ll meet another idiot heading in the other direction.

Your face and voice suggest your career options will be limited to those things you can do well with your hands.

You shouldn’t laugh at your wife’s choices because you’re one of them.

You can’t lose a homing pigeon. If your homing pigeon fails to return home, then what you’ve lost is a pigeon.

You don’t need a parachute to go skydiving unless it’s something you plan to do more than once.

I love to hold hands at the movies but for some reason, strangers sitting next to me never seem that keen.

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you’ll look forward to the trip.

Is it true that the security guys at the Samsung Store are known as Guardians of the Galaxy?

You know they’re your friends when you walk into their home, and you connect to the WiFi automatically.

The absurdity of the sexual act is God’s way of reminding us that he does have a sense of humor.

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27 Quotes by Jane Austen that are thought-provoking

03/29/2025 by

Today I thought exploring some quotes by Jane Austen would be interesting.

As I’m sure many readers will know, Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

Austen’s work explored women’s dependence on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security.

Austen’s use of biting irony, realism, and social commentary has earned her acclaim among critics and scholars.

For her time, she was a successful woman, and it’s always worth listening to successful people.

So, dear reader, be inspired by these excellent quotes by Jane Austen and see how many of them still resonate with us all today.

Quotes by Jane Austen (1-9)

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

Respect for right conduct is felt by everybody.

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

Quotes by Jane Austen (10-18)

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know because there is no hope of a cure.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Quotes by Jane Austen (19-27)

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual in that family may be.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

I would have everybody marry if they can do it properly: I do not like to have people throw themselves away, but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.

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25 inspirational stories of people going from rags to riches

03/28/2025 by

Inspirational stories can be so uplifting. Their message always says, “If other people can be successful, then you can too.“

Did you have a tough start in life?

Then perhaps you feel that your difficult past will prevent you from enjoying a successful future.

Well, let me tell you, a tough past doesn’t mean you’re doomed to a tough future.

A friend of mine had a very difficult start in life, and yet he’s now a millionaire. People do succeed, and so can you.

The past is the past, of course, and it can’t be changed. It serves only as a series of lessons to be learned. Remember, the past was simply part of your education. It was not a life sentence.

The future is different. The future has yet to be written, and the good news is, you’ve got the pen.

You can create any future you want, as long as you’re determined, focused, and prepared to put in plenty of hard work. You won’t get anywhere without those ingredients, I’m afraid.

Nevertheless, in the future there will be a constant stream of opportunities to be seized, just waiting for the fleet-footed and enterprising to grab and exploit them. One person’s problem is another person’s opportunity to provide a solution for a profit.

Success can be yours if you’re prepared to make the effort and take a few calculated risks.

Don’t just accept my word for it; look around for people who’ve done it.

There are plenty of inspirational stories if you’ll just look for them. Today I offer you a video with 25 inspirational stories. It’s well worth a few minutes of your time.

25 Inspirational Stories:

In the video included here, there are 25 excellent examples of people who had a tough start in life but went on to enjoy considerable financial success.

These are all inspirational stories of people going from rags to riches. And if they can do it, why not you?

And remember this: you’re never too old.

Colonel Sanders started KFC at the grand old age of 65.

And Ray Kroc began building the business empire we now know as McDonald’s at 52.

Believe you can and you will.

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15 Quotes by Aristotle that will inspire you

03/27/2025 by

Today I am exploring some quotes by Aristotle.

Do you have your own personal philosophy, dear reader? Perhaps you have a sense of what’s important to you and what isn’t.

Maybe you have a set of values by which you live your life. Then again, perhaps this is something on which you continue to reflect.

That’s fine. However, if that is the case, I believe listening to the words of the great philosophers will help you.

There are many great philosophers, of course, but one man’s words worthy of your time would be those of Aristotle.

Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist believed to have been born around 384 BC.

I think the wisdom of the ancients offers us a lot in terms of the development of our own personal philosophy. All those quotes attributed to Aristotle provide us with much about which we can contemplate and reflect in relation to our own lives.

Here are 15 quotes by Aristotle to help you reflect and further develop your philosophy.

Quotes by Aristotle:

  1. Happiness depends upon ourselves. ~Aristotle
  2. Friendship is essentially a partnership. ~Aristotle
  3. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ~Aristotle
  4. Quality is not an act, it’s a habit. ~Aristotle
  5. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. ~Aristotle
  6. There is no great genius without some touch of madness. ~Aristotle
  7. A friend to all is a friend to none. ~Aristotle
  8. Good habits formed in youth make all the difference. ~Aristotle
  9. Man is by nature a political animal. ~Aristotle
  10. The roots of education are bitter but the fruit is sweet. ~Aristotle
  11. He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. ~Aristotle
  12. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~Aristotle
  13. The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. ~Aristotle
  14. At his best man is the noblest of all animals but separated from law and justice he is the worst. ~Aristotle
  15. The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control and outnumbers both of the other classes. ~Aristotle

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