Motivational Quotes By Great And Famous Men Volume 1

Benjamin Franklin   (Politician)

• An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
• Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
• By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
• Lost time is never found again.
• As we account for every idle word, so we must account for every idle silence.

Socrates   (Philosopher)

• Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
• The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
• Prefer knowledge to wealth for one is transitory, the other perpetual.
• The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
• I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
• By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one you'll become a philosopher.
• The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.
• Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
• From the deepest desire often comes the deadliest hate.

Albert Einstein   (Physicist)

• In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
• There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
• Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.
• Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
• A clever person solves a problem, a wise person avoids it.
• Everybody is a genius but if you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree, it will live it's whole life believing it is stupid.
• If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

• The difference between genius and stupidity is ; genius has it's limits.
• I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
• The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
• A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is not what it is built for.
• Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
• Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
• Insanity is doing the same , over and over again, but expecting different results.
• Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. 

Karl Marx  (Dramatist)

• The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
• Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
• Reason has always existed but not always in a reasonable form.
• Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well to do idlers.
• Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
• The Production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
• From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.