These are quotes to get you started or make you stop and think. They are some of my favorite sayings from some of my favorite people. You can use them as Instagram captions, decals to put on your wall, annotations to make a statement in an essay, or simply something to get you through the day. It's what we take away from that person and what they say that matters.
1. Winston Churchill
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal; It is the courage to continue that counts."
"If you're going through hell, keep going."
2. Coco Chanel
"A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life."
"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
3. Liz Taylor
"I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage."
"You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living."
4. Abby Wambach
"You never know if you can actually do something against all odds until you actually do it."
"It's not pressure, it's responsibility. We put it on ourselves."
5. Andy Warhol
"Art is that you can get away with."
"I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die."
6. George Harrison
"As long as you hate, there will be people to hate."
"You've got as many live as you like, and more, even the ones you don't wants."
7. Ernest Hemingway
"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."
"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love."
8. Franklin D. Roosevelt
"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
9. Gandhi
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
"They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them."
10. Aesop
"It is easy to be brave from a safe distance."
"After all is said and done, more is said than done."
11. George Orwell
"Happiness can exist only in acceptance."
"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
12. Paul McCartney
"I don't work at being ordinary."
"In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."
13. Voltaire
"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."
"My life is a struggle."
14. Edgar Allen Poe
"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariable excites the sensitive souls to tears."
"There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion"
15. G.K. Chesterton
"A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition."
"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see."
16. Dean Martin
"If this is just the beginning, my life's gonna be beautiful."
"You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on."
17. Frank Sinatra
"The best revenge is massive success."
"Don't hide your scars. They make you who you are."
18. Steven Tyler
"If it's worth doing, it is worth overdoing."
"Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us."
19. Freddie Mercury
"I dress to kill, but tastefully."
"You can be anything you want to be, just turn yourself into anything you think that you could ever be."
20. Audrey Hepburn
"Why change? Everyone has their own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it."
"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says "I'm possible!"
