Famous English Quotations
List of famous quotations, page 4,
Authors from 'G' to 'J'
Quotations from politicians, writers, actors, scientists and philosophers.
| Quotation | Author |
|---|---|
| G | |
| "We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves." | Galileo Gallilei |
| "I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers." | Mahatma Gandhi |
| "I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people." | Mahatma Gandhi |
| “There is enough on earth for everybody’s need, but not for everyone’s greed.” | Mahatma Gandhi |
| "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." | Mahatma Gandhi |
| "Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever." | Mahatma Gandhi |
| "Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction." | Bill Gates |
| "Nothing strengthens authority as much as silence." | Charles de Gaulle |
| "Graveyards are full of indispensable men." | Charles de Gaulle |
| "Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil." | J. Paul Getty |
| "Money isn't everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children" | J. Paul Getty |
| "If you can actually count your money then you are not a rich man." | J. Paul Getty |
| "All the world over I will back the masses against the classes." | William Gladstone |
| "Enjoy when you can and endure when you must." | J.W. van Goethe |
| "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." | J.W. van Goethe |
| "Whatever you can do or dream, begin it." | J.W. van Goethe |
| "A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days." | J.W. van Goethe |
| "Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life." | J.W. van Goethe |
| H | |
| "However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at." | Stephen Hawking |
| "Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change." | Stephen Hawking |
| "Life would be tragic if it weren't funny." | Stephen Hawking |
| "Work gives you meaning and purpose, and life is empty without it." | Stephen Hawking |
| "Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try." | Ernest Hemmingway |
| "Courage is grace under pressure." | Ernest Hemmingway |
| "Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinnguish one man from another." | Ernest Hemmingway |
| "Never confuse movement with action." | Ernest Hemmingway |
| "There is no better friend than a book." | Ernest Hemmingway |
| "Drama is life with the dull bits cut out." | Alfred Hitchcock |
| "Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow." | Horace |
| "Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age." | Victor Hugo |
| "He who opens a school door, closes a prison." | Victor Hugo |
| "Life is the flower for which love is the honey." | Victor Hugo |
| "Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant." | Victor Hugo |
| "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." | Aldous Huxley |
| "Maybe this world is another planet's hell." | Aldous Huxley |
| J | |
| "Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me." | Steve Jobs |
| "Build a life you don't want a holiday from." | Steve Jobs |
| “Creativity is just connecting things.” | Steve Jobs |
| "In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock." | Thomas Jefferson |
| "In school you are given the lesson then the test. In life you are given the test then the lesson." | Steve Jobs |
| “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower” | Steve Jobs |
| "To be in the top 1% you have to do what the 99% don't." | Steve Jobs |
| "When a child learns to walk and falls 50 times, do you think they say "maybe this isn't for me"? | Steve Jobs |
| “Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.” | Steve Jobs |
| "Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed." | Samuel Johnson |
| "Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful." | Samuel Johnson |
| "Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise." | Samuel Johnson |
| "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." | Samuel Johnson |
| "When making your choices in life, do not forget to live." | Samuel Johnson |
| "Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks." | Samuel Johnson |
| "I am tomorrow when I establish today. I am today when I established yesterday." | James Joyce |
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