The 110 best memorable phrases

Throughout history, there have been characters who, through their ideas, thoughts and phrases, have left a legacy to humanity that allows us to remember them and put into practice many of those teachings.

These reflections have passed from generation to generation thanks to books, movies or any other way that helps to see life in a better way. Here you will find a compilation of them through this selection of the best memorable phrases.

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Memorable phrases that invite you to reflect

In order to save the impact that the experiences lived through time have caused, we bring a list with the best memorable phrases, which will lead you to appreciate your own experiences.

1. Someone sits in a shadow today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. (Warren Buffett)

Leave a footprint that allows others to walk on it.

2. Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. (Zig Ziglar)

Triumph is only achieved through a correct attitude.

3. Every day I ask myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am going to do today?" If the answer is “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. (Steve Jobs)

You are the only one who can change both your way of thinking and the way you act.

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4. Happiness is achieved when what one thinks, what one says and what one does are in harmony. (Mahatma Gandhi)

Pay attention to what you say, do and think as everything must be in complete sync.

5. Love has no cure, but it is the only medicine for all ills. (Konrad Adenauer)

Love can cure almost all ills.

6. It is better to remain silent and appear foolish than to speak up and clear doubts for good. (Groucho Marx)

When there is nothing good to say, it is better to remain silent.

7. True leaders must be willing to sacrifice everything for the freedom of their people. (Nelson Mandela)

Those who dedicate themselves to doing good for their neighbor are worth admiring and remembering.

8. Some people are so false that they no longer distinguish that what they think is the exact opposite of what they say (Marcel Aymé)

You have to be consistent in what you think and what you say.

9. It is human to err and foolish to remain in error. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

Errors are something natural in man, but the problem arises when one remains in them.

10. No man is good enough to rule others without their consent. (Abraham Lincoln)

No one has the right to rule over others.

11. It is better to act exposing yourself to regret it than to regret not having done anything. (Giovanni Boccaccio)

Do not stop doing anything for fear of failure.

12. You don't have to go back or give yourself momentum. (Lao Tse)

Don't stay in the past, just move on

13. The world is not in danger from bad people but from those who allow evil. (Albert Einstein)

Never become an accomplice to something that harms other people.

14. The measure of love is to love without measure. (San Agustin)

Love is a gift that is given without measure.

15. Living alone is like being at a party where no one pays attention to you. (Marilyn Monroe)

Loneliness is a difficult thing to bear for some people.

16. Being prepared is important, knowing how to wait for it is even more important, but taking advantage of the right moment is the key to life. (Arthur Schnitzler)

Do not miss any opportunity that presents itself.

17. The sage never says everything he thinks, but he always thinks everything he says. (Aristotle)

It is important that before speaking, you think about what you are going to say.

18. I am not so enamored of my own opinions that I ignore what others may think about them. (Copernicus)

There are times when it is important to listen to the opinions of others.

19. The human body is the carriage; the self, the man who drives it; Thought is the reins, and feelings are the horses. (Plato)

Feelings are what makes man a good or bad being.

20. He who owns the most, is more afraid of losing it. (Leonardo da Vinci)

When we want to have more, fear is also present.

21. Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. (Picasso)

If you don't work you will have nothing.

22. The best way to get rid of temptation is to give in to it. (Oscar Wilde)

Fears are only eliminated when they are faced.

23. Doubt is the mother of invention. (Galileo Galilei)

In difficult moments is when imagination flies.

24. They can cut all the flowers, but they can't stop the spring. (Pablo Neruda)

There are many things that we cannot avoid.

25. At twenty years old everyone has the face that God has given them; with forty the face that life has given them and with sixty the one they deserve. (Albert Schweitzer)

Experience is a virtue that few possess.

26. Our children will not have time to discuss climate change. They can only live with its effects. (Barack Obama)

Attention must be paid to the environment so that future generations can appreciate it.

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27. The worst fight is the one that is not done. (Karl Marx)

Do not let fear paralyze you, face each fight with strength and tenacity.

28. If you want to be happy, be happy. (Leo Tolstoy)

Happiness will only depend on you.

29. Do not do to others what you would not like them to do to you. (Confucius)

Treat others as you would like to be treated.

30. We build too many walls and not enough bridges. (Isaac Newton)

We are wasting time building fortresses around us and not living life to the fullest.

31. There is no night, however long it may be, that does not find the day. (W. Shakespeare)

Every problem, even a very serious one, has a solution.

32. The secret of human existence is not only in living, but also in knowing what one lives for. (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

Find your purpose in life.

33. I learned that you can't go back, that the essence of life is to go forward. (Christie Agatha)

There is only one path, the one ahead of us.

34. Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans. (John Lennon)

Don't stop living, life is too beautiful to waste every moment.

35. I would never die for my beliefs, because I could be wrong. (Bertrand Russell)

Always seek other opinions.

36. You never know how strong you are, until being strong is the only option you have left. (Bob Marley)

We will only know our strength when we have to use it.

37. We spend a lot of time earning a living, but not enough time living it. (Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta)

Find time to appreciate how beautiful life is.

38. The way to start is to stop talking and start acting. (Walt Disney)

Don't focus on just words, but on facts.

39. Always give more than what is expected of you. (Larry Page)

Always push yourself a little more.

40. You cannot afford to be handicapped in spirit as well as physically. (Stephen Hawking)

The spiritual disability is the most limiting.

41.- Innovation distinguishes leaders from followers. (Steve Jobs)

At all times seek to innovate, only then will you differentiate yourself.

42. Setting an example is not the main way to influence others; it's the only way. (Albert Einstein)

Behave in such a way that you can be an example to others.

43. Even people who say we can't do anything to change our destiny look before they cross the street. (Stephen Hawking)

We are all responsible for our lives and the decisions we make.

44. The most important successes are achieved when there is the possibility of failure. (Mark Zuckerberg)

Don't be afraid of failure, that allows you to succeed.

45. A day without laughing is a day lost. (Charles Chaplin)

Always smile as it is a motivation for others.

46. We expect anything to happen, and we are never forewarned at all. (Sophie Soynonov)

We want things to happen, but we never prepare for it.

47. The more joy is spent, the more remains. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Never lose joy.

48. In life there is something worse than failure: not having tried anything. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

Don't stay without trying something, just because you think it's going to go wrong.

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49. What does not kill you makes you stronger. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Each situation has its lesson.

50. Education is the most powerful weapon to change the world. (Nelson Mandela)

Nothing is more powerful than education.

51. Don't take life too seriously; You won't get out of this alive anyway. (Bernard Fontenelle)

Life must be taken a little seriously and a little jokingly.

52. Those who do not want to imitate anything will not produce anything. (Salvador Dali)

The examples to follow are those that make you a better person.

53. Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. (Erich Frommm)

Get your creativity going, only then will you make a difference.

54. History repeats itself, that is one of the mistakes of history. (Charles Darwin)

Life is a circle where everything comes back again and again.

55. There are two classes of men: those who make history and those who suffer from it. (Camilo Jose Cela)

You can make a difference.

56. The root of suffering is attachment. (Buddha)

Don't stay attached to the things that hold you back.

57. It takes little to get things right, but even less to get them wrong. (Paul Bocuse)

Focus on doing things right.

58. I only know that I know nothing. (Socrates)

Never think that you know more than others.

59. The world belongs to optimists; pessimists are mere spectators. (Dwight Eisenhower)

Bet on optimism, it will take you on the right path.

60. I have no special talents. I'm just passionately curious. (Albert Einstein)

The only talent that is above the others is curiosity.

61. It takes a lifetime to learn to live. (Seneca)

Life is too short to live it.

62. Friends often become thieves of our time. (Plato)

Spend time with your friends, but not all day.

63. No person deserves your tears, and whoever deserves them won't make you cry. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

No one has the right to make you cry.

64. The world is beautiful, but it has a defect called man. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Man is the only enemy of humanity.

65. The worst thing the bad guys do is force us to doubt the good guys. (Jacinto Benavente)

Avoid having the company of bad people, because they are specialists in making you doubt the honesty of others.

66. To work, it is enough to be convinced of one thing: that working is less boring than having fun. (Charles Baudelaire)

Work dignifies man.

67. There is nothing a man can't do when a woman looks at him. (Casanova)

A man is capable of anything to attract a woman's attention.

68. If you give a hungry man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach him to fish, you will nurture his whole life. (Lao Tse)

It is important to instruct man to have a productive life.

69. Without pain there are no results. (Benjamin Franklin)

Every effort brings its reward.

70. Never break the silence if it is not for improve it. (Beethoven)

If you know how to shut up in a timely manner, you own your destiny.

71. Wars will continue as long as skin color is more important than eye color. (Bob Marley)

Unfortunately, the color of the skin is one of the reasons for so much cruelty.

72. Learn to live and you'll learn to die well. (Confucius)

If you have a happy life, death will be too.

73. The greatest declaration of love is the one that is not made; The man that feels a lot, speaks little. (Plato)

Love is not shown with words, but with deeds.

74. What really matters in life is not the goals we set for ourselves, but the paths we follow to achieve them. (Peter Bamm)

Do not look at the goal, but on the path that leads you to it.

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75. Life is a movie that starts over every morning when we wake up. Forget about your mistakes, every day you have a new opportunity to succeed and achieve happiness. (Norkin Gilbert)

Yesterday is over, today is what counts.

76. If you believe you can, you can. If you think you can't, you can't. Whether you think one thing or the other, you are right. (Henry Ford)

What you think, whether negative or not, will be what you will see.

77. If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sadness. (Chinese proverb)

In any situation, stay calm.

78. Ask and you will receive, seek and you will find; knock and the doors will be opened for you. (Jesus of Nazareth)

Seek help when you need it, especially from God.

79. The message sent is not always the message received. (Virginia Satyr)

Not always what is said is what the other person perceives.

80. If it's good to live, it's still better to dream, and best of all, to wake up. (Antonio Machado)

Don't stop living your dreams.

81. Success is not measured in money, but in the difference it makes to people. (Michelle Obama)

Success is not about money, but about the authenticity of people.

82. If you want to be happy, you must resign yourself to seeing others happy. (Bertrand Russell)

Happiness is obtained through others.

83. Remember that you are only as good as the best thing you have done in your life. (Billy Wilder)

We are all capable of doing good things.

84. Living is not just existing and creating, it is knowing how to enjoy and suffer and not sleep without dreaming. To rest is to begin to die. (Gregorio Maranon)

Life must be lived with its difficulties and its charms.

85. A person who sees life at 50 the same as at 20, has wasted 30 years of life. (Muhammad Ali)

Life is a constant transformation.

86. The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes but in liking what one does. (Sir James M. barrie)

Do not focus on doing what you want, but on wanting what you do.

87. Everything that is eaten without need is stolen from the stomach of the poor. (Mahatma Gandhi)

You have to help those in need.

88. I think, therefore I am. (Rene Descartes)

You have to think before you act.

89. Every day we know more and understand less. (Albert Einstein)

It is not only about acquiring knowledge, but about putting it into practice.

90. Make love and not war. (John Lennon)

Wars have never left anything good.

91. We don't know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that's a fact. (Sartre)

People usually don't know what they really want.

92. Sometimes if you want to change a person's mind, you first have to change the mind of the person next to him. (Megan Whale Turner)

If you want to change the world, start by changing your thoughts.

93. Of all the animals in creation, man is the only one who drinks without being thirsty, eats without being hungry, and talks without having anything to say. (John Steinbeck)

Man is the most irrational animal that exists.

94. A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother. (Benjamin Franklin)

True friends become family.

95. One is the owner of what he is silent and a slave of what he speaks. (Sigmund Freud)

That's right, take care of your words, they can make you fall into a bad move.

96. Love is so short and oblivion is so long. (Pablo Neruda)

Forgetting someone can be more difficult than you think.

97. Whoever has not suffered what I have not given me advice (Sophocles)

No one knows the suffering of others.

98. If you want to change the world, take your pen and write. (Martin Luther)

Words are carried away by the wind, that is why you have to leave everything in writing.

99. Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. (Confucius)

If you really love what you do, then don't call it work.

100. One becomes great by what he reads and not by what he writes. (Jorge Luis Borges)

Reading is a great way to learn.

101. Our greatest glory is not never to fall, but to get up every time we fall. (Confucius)

It doesn't matter if you fall a thousand times, you just have to get up every time.

102. When you hear an inner voice that tells you that you can't paint, paint as much as you can and you'll see how it will shut up. (Vincent van Gogh)

Don't listen to negative thoughts.

103. Only those who don't know how to take advantage of it lack time. (Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos)

He makes good use of the time since he does not return.

104. Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. (Stephen Hawking)

Knowing how to adapt to changes is the most sensible thing to do.

105. A friend to all is a friend to no one. (Aristotle)

Don't trust anyone, only true friends are trustworthy.

106. Don't let any human being bring you down so low that you hate them. (Martin Luther King)

Don't give room to hate.

107. The pessimist complains about the wind; The optimist expects it to change; The realist adjusts the candles. (William George Ward)

He leaves bad thoughts out of you, because they will not take you to a safe harbor.

108. The luck favors only the prepared mind. (Isaac Asimov)

It is not a matter of luck, it is preparation and study that will lead you to success.

109. If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. (Milton Berle)

Look for the opportunities.

110. It is easy to make things complicated, but it is difficult to make them simple. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

We always bet on the complicated when in reality simplicity is more practical.