Famous Quotes bring a hidden power to communication. If one can find a famous quotation that pertains to their point, it is as good as finding scripture!

Below is an ever-growing list of some of my favorite quotes. Feel free to send me your own favorite famous quotations!

"A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority." ~ Brendan Francis

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." ~ Henry David Thoreau

"Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist." ~ Robert G. Allen

"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." ~ Calvin Coolidge

"Fear not that your life will come to an end but that it will never have a beginning." ~ John Henry Newman - British Theologian

"Courage is not something that only appears when you put on armor, take up weapons, and fight in combat. The difference between the courageous and the cowardly can be seen in everyday life." ~ Taira Shigesuke

"On the warrior's path, only three things are considered essential: loyalty, duty, and valor." ~ Taira Shigesuke

"Courage is fear that has said its prayers." ~ Karl Barth, Swiss Theologian

"Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple." ~ John C. Maxwell

"Heart is what seperates the good from the great" ~ Michael Jordan

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."
~ Benjamin Disreali

"Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."
~ Eddie Rickenbacker

"I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism."
~ Charles Schwab

"When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and watch you burn."
~ John Wesley on being passionate