The 100 Most Beautiful Quotes of All Time

Many books have been written and many citations have been taken from them. But not every book is special and not every quote is worth reading. To save you some massive amount of time, we’ve created this selection of the most beautiful quotes of all time. Enjoy reading! And if you enjoy reading quotes, have a look at these inspirational quotes about life.

Throughout the ages, millions of books have been written. These books equate to billions of pages, which makes it a larger-than-life task to find all the hidden gems within them. Even with a list of some of the greatest books, it would be almost impossible to read every single book and write down the best quotations.

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero

That’s where our collection of exceptionally beautiful quotes comes in quite handy. It features some of the most inspirational and insightful pieces of literature of all time. Some of these quotes are beautifully profound and inspire you to think deeply. Others are powerfully motivational and encourage you to overcome your fears and limitations.

These beautiful quotes will lift your spirits and inspire you to strive for greatness

In short, these are the unique thoughts of renowned authors, poets, philosophers, and adventurers that motivate you to reach for the stars. No matter what situation you find yourself in life in, you will always find something of value in the following list.

The 100 Most Beautiful Quotes of All Time

Just imagine you could get to ask 100 of the most inspirational individuals that ever lived about their most important piece of advice for you. You would surely get some truly remarkable and profound answers to your question. Unfortunately, many of these individuals have already passed away. However, their wisdom and their unique insights on life continue to live on in their books. Here are these quotes that are able to change lives.

Enjoy our collection of magnificently beautiful quotes

1.

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
Marcus Aurelius

2.

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!”
Audrey Hepburn

3.

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”
Helen Keller

4.

“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”
Maya Angelou

5.

“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”
Jesus Christ

6.

“A ship in harbor is safe — but that is not what ships are built for.”
— John A. Shedd

7.

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says ‘I’ll try again tomorrow.'”
Mary Anne Radmacher

8.

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

9.

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

10.

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
Theodore Roosevelt

11.

“Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.”
Walt Disney

12.

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
Mae West

13.

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
Haruki Murakami

14.

“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

15.

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
John Lennon

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16.

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
Paulo Coelho

17.

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead

18.

“Life is like a camera. Just focus on what’s important, capture the good times, develop from the negatives, and if things don’t work out, just take another shot.”
Richard Branson

19.

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
Ingrid Bergman

20.

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
Paulo Coelho

21.

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
Henry David Thoreau

22.

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson

23.

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

24.

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
Rumi

25.

“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”
Napoleon Hill

26.

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
Dr. Seuss

27.

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
Anais Nin

28.

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
Benjamin Franklin

29.

“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.”
Chinese Proverb

30.

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Marcel Proust

These beautiful quotes are brimming with inspiration

31.

“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
Martin Luther King Jr.

32.

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
Maya Angelou

33.

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
Victor Hugo

34.

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
George R.R. Martin

35.

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”
Bernard M. Baruch

36.

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
Aristotle

37.

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
Anne Frank

38.

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
William Arthur Ward

39.

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
Aristotle

40.

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
Søren Kierkegaard

41.

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
Anne Frank

42.

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

43.

“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

44.

“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
Terry Pratchett

45.

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
Norman Vincent Peale

46.

“Permanence, perseverance, and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
Thomas Carlyle

47.

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

48.

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

49.

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
Thomas Jefferson

50.

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

Beautiful quotes like this show you how precious life is

51.

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
Aesop

52.

“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
Lisa Kleypas

53.

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

54.

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that’s what you’ve given me. That’s what I’d hoped to give you forever”
Nicholas Sparks

55.

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.”
Stephen Hawking

56.

“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

57.

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
Booker T. Washington

58.

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
Confucious

59.

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
Brigham Young

60.

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Walt Disney

61.

“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
Paulo Coelho

62.

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
George Bernard Shaw

63.

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

64.

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
Aristotle

65.

“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it isn’t open.”
Frank Zappa

These beautiful quotes are quite profound

66.

“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”
Edward Everett Hale

67.

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
Edith Wharton

68.

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

69.

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible… it’s yours.”
Ayn Rand

70.

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
Sarah Williams

71.

“And though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
J.R.R. Tolkien

72.

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
Albert Einstein

73.

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

74.

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

75.

“Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.”
Nicholas Sparks

76.

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
Sigmund Freud

77.

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world… would do this, it would change the earth.”
William Faulkner

78.

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

79.

“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

80.

“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”
Haruki Murakami

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81.

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
Oprah Winfrey

82.

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

83.

“Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.”
Haruki Marukami

84.

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
Nora Ephron

85.

“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
Winston S. Churchill

86.

“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”
Walt Disney

87.

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
Coco Chanel

88.

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
Mark Twain

89.

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
Lao Tzu

90.

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
Milton Berle

91.

“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

92.

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
Oscar Wilde

93.

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
Rainer Maria Rilke

94.

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
Paulo Coelho

95.

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

96.

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
Dr. Seuss

97.

“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

98.

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

99.

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
Mahatma Gandhi

100.

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
Anne Rice

I hope you enjoyed this collection of the most beautiful quotes of all time. What is your favorite quote from this list?

Stay victorious!