All Authors
All Authors
From Seneca to James Clear, from Rumi to Michelle Obama — 496 authors whose words have endured. Every quote verified, every attribution checked.
496 verified authors, from ancient philosophers to modern thinkers.
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35 authors- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam5 quotes1931–2015# A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Born October 15, 1931, in Rameswaram,…
- Abraham Lincoln16 quotes1809–1865# Abraham Lincoln Born in a one-room log cabin in Hodgenvil…
- Abraham Maslow1 quote1908–1970# Abraham Maslow The Brooklyn-born psychologist (1908–1970)…
- Albert Camus2 quotes1913–1960# Albert Camus A French-Algerian writer born November 7, 19…
- Albert Einstein12 quotes1879–1955# Albert Einstein Born in Ulm, Germany on March 14, 1879, A…
- Albert Pike1 quote1809–1891# Albert Pike A Boston-born intellectual who carved an outs…
- Albert Schweitzer5 quotes1875–1965# Albert Schweitzer Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) grew up i…
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn0 quotes1918–2008**Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn** A Soviet artillery officer arres…
- Alexander Graham Bell1 quote1847–1922# Alexander Graham Bell The son of a Scottish elocution tea…
- Alexander Pope1 quote1688–1744# Alexander Pope The crippling illness struck at age twelve…
- Ali ibn Abi Talib5 quotes600–661# Ali ibn Abi Talib Cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Mu…
- Alice Walker3 quotesb. 1944# Alice Walker Born in Eatonton, Georgia, on February 9, 19…
- Alphonse Karr1 quote1808–1890# Alphonse Karr The French author and critic Alphonse Karr…
- Amelia Earhart0 quotes1897–1937# Amelia Earhart On July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas, Ame…
- Amit Ray1 quote# Amit Ray An Indian author and spiritual teacher, Amit Ray…
- Anaïs Nin1 quote1903–1977# Anaïs Nin The daughter of a Cuban pianist and French-Dani…
- André Malraux0 quotes1901–1976# André Malraux Born in Paris in 1901, Malraux was an archa…
- Andy Warhol0 quotes1928–1987**Andy Warhol** Pittsburgh's Campbell's Soup kid arrived in…
- Anna Freud1 quote1895–1982# Anna Freud The youngest of Sigmund Freud's six children,…
- Anne Lamott1 quoteb. 1954# Anne Lamott Growing up in Marin County, California, in th…
- Annie Dillard0 quotesb. 1945# Annie Dillard The daughter of a banker and stockbroker, D…
- Anonymous2 quotes# Anonymous The identity of Anonymous remains deliberately…
- Anonymous (Arabian proverb)0 quotes# Arabian Saying (recorded in George Eliot's *Adam Bede*) T…
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry1 quote1900–1944# Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The French writer and aviator gr…
- Anton Chekhov1 quote1860–1904# Anton Chekhov The son of a grocer and former serf, Chekho…
- Apostle Paul0 quotes# Apostle Paul A Pharisaic Jew born Saul of Tarsus (exact b…
- Archibald MacLeish0 quotes1892–1982# Archibald MacLeish A lawyer's son born in Glencoe, Illino…
- Aristotle12 quotes# Aristotle Aristotle arrived in Athens around 367 BCE as a…
- Arnold Schwarzenegger4 quotesb. 1947# Arnold Schwarzenegger Growing up in Thal, Austria, in the…
- Arthur Ashe2 quotes1943–1993**Arthur Ashe** Richmond, Virginia, 1943. A Black tennis pl…
- Arthur C. Clarke2 quotes1917–2008**Arthur C. Clarke** December 16, 1917 brought Arthur Charl…
- Arthur Schopenhauer1 quote1788–1860# Arthur Schopenhauer Born in Danzig in 1788 to a wealthy m…
- Arthur Somers Roche1 quote# Arthur Somers Roche Arthur Somers Roche was an American w…
- Audre Lorde0 quotes1934–1992# Audre Lorde Born in New York City on February 18, 1934, A…
- Ayn Rand2 quotes1905–1982# Ayn Rand Born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum in Saint Peters…
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26 authors- B.F. Skinner1 quote1904–1990**B.F. Skinner (1904–1990)** Burrhus Frederic Skinner arriv…
- Baltasar Gracián0 quotes1601–1658# Baltasar Gracián The Spanish Jesuit who made a career of…
- Barbara W. Tuchman0 quotesb. 1912# Barbara W. Tuchman The daughter of a prominent New York i…
- Barrie Davenport0 quotes# Barrie Davenport A motivational writer and life coach who…
- bell hooks1 quote1952–2024Gloria Jean Watkins adopted the lowercase pen name bell hoo…
- Benjamin Franklin17 quotes1706–1790# Benjamin Franklin January 17, 1706: a chandler's son arri…
- Benjamin Graham1 quote1894–1976# Benjamin Graham May 9, 1894, in London—though Graham spen…
- Bernadette Devlin0 quotes# Bernadette Devlin At twenty-one, Devlin became the younge…
- Bernard Meltzer1 quote# Bernard Meltzer A radio personality and philosopher of pr…
- Bertrand Russell0 quotes1872–1970# Bertrand Russell May 18, 1872, brought into the world a W…
- Betty Friedan0 quotes1921–2006# Betty Friedan Born Betty Naomi Goldstein in Peoria, Illin…
- Beverly Sills1 quote1929–2007# Beverly Sills Belle Miriam Silverman arrived in Brooklyn…
- Beyoncé0 quotesb. 1981# Beyoncé Houston, Texas, 1981. Knowles was nine when she j…
- Bil Keane0 quotesb. 1922# Bil Keane The cartoonist behind *The Family Circus* spent…
- Bill Gates1 quoteb. 1955# Bill Gates October 28, 1955: William Henry Gates III ente…
- Billie Jean King1 quoteb. 1943# Billie Jean King November 22, 1943, Long Beach, Californi…
- Blaise Pascal0 quotes1623–1662# Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand produced this mathematical…
- Bob Dylan0 quotesb. 1941# Bob Dylan Robert Allen Zimmerman arrived in Hibbing, Minn…
- Bob Marley14 quotes1945–1981# Bob Marley February 6, 1945, in Nine Mile, Jamaica—a vill…
- Bram Stoker0 quotes1847–1912# Bram Stoker Born Abraham Stoker on November 8, 1847, in C…
- Brené Brown1 quoteb. 1965# Brené Brown A social worker's daughter raised in San Anto…
- Brian Tracy1 quoteb. 1944# Brian Tracy A Canadian self-made entrepreneur born in 194…
- Bruce Feirstein1 quoteb. 1950# Bruce Feirstein A screenwriter and satirist born in the 1…
- Bruce Lee13 quotes1940–1973# Bruce Lee San Francisco, November 27, 1940. His mother wa…
- Buddha9 quotes# Buddha Around 563 BCE in Lumbini (modern-day Nepal), a pr…
- Bum Phillips1 quote# Bum Phillips Oail Andrew Phillips Jr.—known to everyone a…
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33 authors- C. JoyBell C.1 quote# C. JoyBell C. The author guards her biography like a secr…
- C. Northcote Parkinson1 quoteb. 1909# C. Northcote Parkinson A British historian and management…
- C.S. Lewis2 quotes1898–1963# C.S. Lewis Clive Staples Lewis entered the world in Belfa…
- Cameron Crowe2 quotes# Cameron Crowe A rock journalist turned screenwriter and d…
- Carl Jung7 quotes1875–1961# Carl Jung July 26, 1875: a Swiss psychiatrist born in Kes…
- Carl Sagan0 quotes1934–1996# Carl Sagan On November 9, 1934, in Brooklyn, New York, a…
- Carl W. Buehner0 quotes# Carl W. Buehner A Latter-day Saint educator and administr…
- Carlton Fisk0 quotesb. 1947# Carlton Fisk The catcher who defined a generation arrived…
- Cassandra Clare0 quotesb. 1973# Cassandra Clare Judith Rumelt adopted the pen name Cassan…
- Cesar Chavez2 quotes1927–1993# Cesar Chavez Born March 31, 1927, in Yuma, Arizona, to a…
- Charles Brackett0 quotes1892–1969# Charles Brackett Born in Sayre, Pennsylvania, in 1892, Br…
- Charles Bukowski1 quoteb. 1920# Charles Bukowski Los Angeles made Bukowski, or perhaps br…
- Charles C. Noble1 quote# Charles C. Noble A railroad executive and agricultural re…
- Charles Caleb Colton0 quotes# Charles Caleb Colton An English clergyman and writer of t…
- Charles Dederich0 quotes1913–1997# Charles Dederich In 1958, a recovering alcoholic with no…
- Charles Dickens1 quote1812–1870# Charles Dickens In 1812, a boy was born in Portsmouth, En…
- Charles R. Swindoll1 quote# Charles R. Swindoll The son of an Army officer, Swindoll…
- Charles Spurgeon1 quoteb. 1834# Charles Spurgeon Born in Kelvedon, Essex, in 1834, Charle…
- Charlie Munger1 quoteb. 1924# Charlie Munger Born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1924, Charles…
- Cheryl Strayed0 quotesb. 1968# Cheryl Strayed In 1968, Cheryl Strayed was born in Minnea…
- Chinua Achebe0 quotes1930–2013# Chinua Achebe Born in 1930 in Ogidi, a village in southea…
- Chris Grosser1 quoteI appreciate the assignment, but I need to be honest: I don…
- Chris Rock1 quoteb. 1966# Chris Rock On February 7, 1966, in Andrews, South Carolin…
- Christian Lous Lange1 quote1869–1938# Christian Lous Lange The Norwegian peace advocate and his…
- Christina Rossetti0 quotes1830–1894# Christina Rossetti December 5, 1830 brought Christina Geo…
- Christopher Reeve0 quotes1952–2004# Christopher Reeve Born September 25, 1952, in Princeton,…
- Cicero1 quote-106–-43# Cicero Born in 106 BCE in Arpinum, a town sixty miles sou…
- Cleopatra0 quotes-69–-30# Cleopatra VII Philopator The last active pharaoh of Egypt…
- Coco Chanel1 quote1883–1971# Coco Chanel Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel entered the world in…
- Colin Powell1 quoteb. 1937# Colin Powell April 5, 1937, in New York City—the son of J…
- Confucius14 quotes-551–-479# Confucius 551 BCE in Qufu, a modest state in northeastern…
- Cormac McCarthy0 quotes1933–2023# Cormac McCarthy Born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1933…
- Corrie ten Boom1 quote1892–1983# Corrie ten Boom Born in Haarlem, Netherlands, in 1892, Co…
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22 authors- Dalai Lama19 quotesb. 1935# Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) Born in 1935 in Taktser, a sma…
- Dalai Lama XIV0 quotesb. 1935# Dalai Lama XIV (Tenzin Gyatso) Born in 1935 in Taktser, a…
- Dale Carnegie1 quote1888–1955# Dale Carnegie Born November 24, 1888, in Maryville, Misso…
- Dan Kennedy1 quote# Dan Kennedy An Ohio-born marketing strategist and serial…
- Dan Millman1 quote# Dan Millman A former gymnast and martial artist, Millman…
- Dan Zadra0 quotes# Dan Zadra A writer and editor born in the American Midwes…
- Daniel Goleman1 quote# Daniel Goleman A psychologist trained at Amherst College…
- Danielle Orner1 quote# Danielle Orner Danielle Orner built her career in the mar…
- Dave Ramsey2 quotesb. 1960# Dave Ramsey A Tennessee-born financial advisor who built…
- David Franzoni0 quotesb. 1947# David Franzoni A screenwriter born in 1947, Franzoni emer…
- David S. Goyer0 quotesb. 1965# David S. Goyer A screenwriter and producer born in 1965,…
- David Viscott0 quotes**David Viscott** A psychiatrist trained at Harvard Medical…
- David Wagoner0 quotesb. 1926# David Wagoner A Pacific Northwest poet born in 1926 in Ma…
- Deborah Day1 quote# Deborah Day A librarian and archivist at UC San Diego's s…
- Dolly Parton1 quoteb. 1946# Dolly Parton The fourth of twelve children born to a shar…
- Dorothy M. Neddermeyer1 quote# Dorothy M. Neddermeyer A researcher and systems theorist…
- Dorothy Sayers0 quotes1893–1957# Dorothy Sayers Oxford educated her, but it was 1920s Lond…
- Douglas Adams3 quotes1952–2001# Douglas Adams March 11, 1952, in Cambridge, England: a bo…
- Douglas MacArthur0 quotes1880–1951# Douglas MacArthur The son of a five-star general, Douglas…
- Dr. Seuss5 quotes1904–1991# Dr. Seuss Theodor Seuss Geisel was born on March 2, 1904,…
- Dwight D. Eisenhower0 quotes1890–1969**Dwight D. Eisenhower** October 14, 1890, Denison, Texas:…
- Dylan Thomas1 quote1914–1953# Dylan Thomas October 27, 1914, in Swansea, Wales—a coal-m…
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22 authors- E. P. Day0 quotes# E. P. Day Little is publicly documented about E. P. Day's…
- E.B. White1 quote1899–1985# E.B. White Elwyn Brooks White arrived in Mount Vernon, Ne…
- Earl Nightingale1 quote1921–1989# Earl Nightingale On March 12, 1921, in Los Angeles, Earl…
- Eckhart Tolle2 quotesb. 1948# Eckhart Tolle A German-born spiritual teacher whose perso…
- Edmund Burke0 quotes1729–1797# Edmund Burke The Irish-born political theorist arrived in…
- Edmund Hillary0 quotes1919–2008# Edmund Hillary On May 20, 1919, a beekeeper's son was bor…
- Edward Gibbon0 quotes1737–1794# Edward Gibbon Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) was born in Surre…
- Edward P. Morgan0 quotes# Edward P. Morgan A broadcast journalist who commanded CBS…
- Elbert Hubbard1 quote1856–1915# Elbert Hubbard The son of a Michigan doctor, Hubbard (185…
- Eleanor Roosevelt12 quotes1884–1962# Eleanor Roosevelt Born October 11, 1884, in New York City…
- Elie Wiesel0 quotes1928–2016# Elie Wiesel Born in Sighet, Romania, on September 30, 192…
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross0 quotes1926–2004# Elisabeth Kübler-Ross A Swiss-American psychiatrist born…
- Elon Musk3 quotesb. 1971# Elon Musk Born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1971, Musk em…
- Emily Dickinson1 quote1830–1886# Emily Dickinson The daughter of a Whig politician and a r…
- Epictetus8 quotes50–135**Epictetus (50–135 CE)** A slave in the household of Epaph…
- Epicurus0 quotes-341–-270# Epicurus The son of an Athenian colonist, Epicurus was bo…
- Eric Roth0 quotes# Eric Roth Born in New York City, Eric Roth emerged as one…
- Erica Jong1 quoteb. 1942# Erica Jong In 1942, Erica Mann was born in New York City…
- Erich Fromm1 quote1900–1980# Erich Fromm Born in Frankfurt am Main on March 23, 1900,…
- Ernest Hemingway4 quotes1899–1961**Ernest Hemingway** July 21, 1899: Oak Park, Illinois prod…
- Estée Lauder1 quote1906–2004# Estée Lauder The daughter of a Hungarian immigrant hardwa…
- Euripides0 quotes# Euripides Around 480 BCE, in Athens or perhaps the island…
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15 authors- F. Scott Fitzgerald1 quote1896–1940**F. Scott Fitzgerald** Born September 24, 1896, in St. Pau…
- Faiz Ahmad Faiz1 quoteb. 1911# Faiz Ahmad Faiz The poet arrived in Sialkot, Punjab, in 1…
- Fran Walsh0 quotes# Fran Walsh New Zealand screenwriter and lyricist born in…
- Frances Perkins0 quotes1880–1965# Frances Perkins Born in Boston in 1880, Frances Perkins b…
- Francis Bacon1 quote1561–1626# Francis Bacon The English philosopher entered the world i…
- Francis de Sales0 quotes1567–1622# Francis de Sales A bishop's son born in Annecy, France, o…
- Frank Darabont0 quotesb. 1959# Frank Darabont A Hungarian-American filmmaker born in 195…
- Frank Ocean1 quoteb. 1987# Frank Ocean The New Orleans native (born 1987) arrived in…
- Frank Sinatra1 quote1915–1998**Frank Sinatra** December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey…
- Franklin D. Roosevelt3 quotes1882–1945# Franklin D. Roosevelt Born into the Hudson Valley gentry…
- Franz Kafka2 quotes1883–1924Prague's Jewish quarter produced Franz Kafka on July 3, 188…
- Frederick Douglass0 quotes1818–1895# Frederick Douglass Born enslaved in Maryland's Eastern Sh…
- Friedrich Engels0 quotes1820–1895# Friedrich Engels Born in Barmen, Prussia, in 1820, Friedr…
- Friedrich Nietzsche6 quotes1844–1900**Friedrich Nietzsche** Born October 15, 1844, in Röcken, a…
- Fyodor Dostoevsky5 quotes1821–1881# Fyodor Dostoevsky Born in Moscow on November 11, 1821, Do…
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14 authors- G. K. Chesterton0 quotes1874–1936**G. K. Chesterton** Gilbert Keith Chesterton arrived in Lo…
- Gabriel García Márquez0 quotes1927–2014# Gabriel García Márquez The Colombian novelist arrived in…
- George Bernard Shaw3 quotes1856–1950# George Bernard Shaw July 26, 1856 in Dublin: a Protestant…
- George Eliot1 quote1819–1880# George Eliot Mary Ann Evans adopted her male pseudonym in…
- George H. W. Bush0 quotesb. 1924**George H. W. Bush** June 12, 1924: George Herbert Walker…
- George Lorimer1 quote# George Horace Lorimer The man who shaped American busines…
- George Lucas0 quotesb. 1944# George Lucas May 14, 1944: a boy born in Modesto, Califor…
- George Sand1 quote1804–1876# George Sand Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin was born July 1,…
- George Shinn0 quotes# George Shinn An American businessman and sports executive…
- Gerry Spence0 quotesb. 1929# Gerry Spence Wyoming's most celebrated trial lawyer came…
- Grandma Moses0 quotes1860–1961# Grandma Moses Anna Mary Robertson Moses was born in 1860…
- Gretchen Rubin1 quote# Gretchen Rubin A Yale Law School graduate who never pract…
- Groucho Marx1 quote1890–1977# Groucho Marx Julius Henry Marx entered vaudeville in 1905…
- Gustave Flaubert0 quotes1821–1880# Gustave Flaubert December 12, 1821: a provincial Norman d…
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21 authors- H. L. Mencken0 quotes1880–1956# H. L. Mencken Baltimore made H. L. Mencken in 1880, and h…
- H.P. Liddon1 quote1829–1890# H.P. Liddon Henry Parry Liddon (1829–1890) was an English…
- Hafiz1 quote1320–1389# Hafiz The Persian poet Hafiz (born circa 1320 in Shiraz,…
- Haim Ginott0 quotes1922–1973# Haim Ginott Haim Ginott arrived in New York in 1947 from…
- Hannah Arendt0 quotes1906–1975# Hannah Arendt A Jewish political theorist born in Hanover…
- Helen Hayes1 quote1900–1993# Helen Hayes On October 10, 1900, in Washington, D.C., Hel…
- Helen Keller6 quotes1880–1968# Helen Keller An illness—likely scarlet fever—struck ninet…
- Henrik Ibsen0 quotes1828–1906# Henrik Ibsen Born in Skien, Norway in 1828 to a merchant…
- Henry David Thoreau11 quotes1817–1862# Henry David Thoreau Born July 12, 1817, in Concord, Massa…
- Henry Ford12 quotes1863–1947# Henry Ford The son of a Michigan farm boy turned small-ti…
- Henry James0 quotes1843–1916# Henry James April 15, 1843, in New York City: the second…
- Henry Ward Beecher1 quote1813–1887# Henry Ward Beecher The son of Lyman Beecher, America's mo…
- Heraclitus1 quote# Heraclitus Sixth-century BCE Ephesus—a Greek port city in…
- Herbert Bayard Swope1 quote1882–1958# Herbert Bayard Swope The son of a German-Jewish immigrant…
- Herbert N. Casson1 quoteb. 1870# Herbert N. Casson A Canadian writer and lecturer born in…
- Herman Melville1 quote1819–1891# Herman Melville Born in New York City in 1819 to a mercha…
- Hermann Hesse0 quotes1877–1962# Hermann Hesse The son of a Protestant missionary, Hesse w…
- Hillel the Elder1 quote# Hillel the Elder A Babylonian Jew who arrived in Jerusale…
- Horace0 quotes-65–-8# Horace The Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus entered th…
- Howard Schultz1 quoteb. 1953# Howard Schultz Schultz grew up in the public housing proj…
- Howard Thurman0 quotes1899–1981# Howard Thurman Born in Daytona Beach, Florida, in 1899, H…
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5 authors- Imran Khan8 quotesb. 1952# Imran Khan Born November 25, 1952, in Lahore, Pakistan, I…
- Iris Murdoch0 quotesb. 1999# Iris Murdoch Dublin-born in 1999, Iris Murdoch grew up be…
- Isaac Asimov0 quotes1920–1992# Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) Born in Petrovichi, Russia, on J…
- Isaac Newton0 quotes1642–1727# Isaac Newton December 25, 1642: a modest farmhouse in Woo…
- Isak Dinesen0 quotes1885–1962# Isak Dinesen A Danish storyteller born Karen Christentze…
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58 authors- J. Paul Getty0 quotes1892–1976# J. Paul Getty December 15, 1892, in Minneapolis: the mome…
- J.K. Rowling2 quotesb. 1965**J.K. Rowling** Born July 31, 1965, in Gloucestershire, En…
- J.R.R. Tolkien1 quote1892–1973**J.R.R. Tolkien** Born January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, S…
- Jack Benny0 quotesb. 1894# Jack Benny Benjamin Kubelsky arrived in Chicago in 1894,…
- Jack Canfield1 quoteb. 1944# Jack Canfield A motivational speaker and entrepreneur bor…
- Jack London0 quotes1876–1916# Jack London January 12, 1876, in San Francisco: a date th…
- Jack Yelton0 quotesI don't have reliable biographical information about Jack Y…
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee0 quotesb. 1962# Jackie Joyner-Kersee Born in East St. Louis, Illinois in…
- Jackie Mason1 quote1928–2021# Jackie Mason Brooklyn-born in 1928, Jackie Mason grew up…
- Jacqueline Leo1 quote# Jacqueline Leo The founding editor of *The Strategist*, N…
- James Allen2 quotes1864–1912# James Allen A British author born in Leicester in 1864, J…
- James Baldwin4 quotes1924–1987# James Baldwin Born in Harlem on August 2, 1924, James Bal…
- James Cameron0 quotesb. 1954# James Cameron On August 16, 1954, in Kapuskasing, Ontario…
- James Clear2 quotesb. 1986# James Clear Born in 1986 in Ohio, James Clear grew up in…
- James Joyce1 quote1882–1941# James Joyce Dublin's difficult son left Ireland for good…
- Jane Austen0 quotes1775–1817# Jane Austen Born in Steventon, Hampshire on December 16,…
- Jawaharlal Nehru0 quotes1889–1964# Jawaharlal Nehru Born in Allahabad on November 14, 1889,…
- Jean-Paul Sartre0 quotes1905–1980# Jean-Paul Sartre Born in Paris in 1905, Sartre grew up in…
- Jerry Garcia0 quotes1942–1995# Jerry Garcia August 1, 1942. San Francisco. A guitarist b…
- Jessica Herrin0 quotes# Jessica Herrin The founder of Skintimate, one of the fast…
- Jesus of Nazareth0 quotes# Jesus of Nazareth A Jewish teacher from Roman-occupied Ga…
- Jim Rohn13 quotes1930–2009# Jim Rohn Born September 17, 1930, in Yakima, Washington,…
- Jim Ryun1 quoteb. 1947# Jim Ryun The fastest American miler of his generation, Ji…
- Jimmy Johnson1 quote# Jimmy Johnson The name belongs to several notable figures…
- Joan Didion0 quotes1934–2021# Joan Didion December 5, 1934, in Sacramento, California:…
- Joe Biden0 quotesb. 1942# Joe Biden November 20, 1942: Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. a…
- Joe Moore0 quotes# Joe Moore A British motivational speaker and corporate tr…
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe5 quotes1749–1832# Johann Wolfgang von Goethe August 28, 1749: Frankfurt am…
- John A. Shedd0 quotes# John A. Shedd A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not wh…
- John C. Maxwell2 quotesb. 1956**John C. Maxwell** An Ohio native born in 1956, Maxwell gr…
- John D. Rockefeller1 quote1839–1937# John D. Rockefeller In 1839, William Avery Rockefeller fa…
- John De Paola0 quotesI appreciate the assignment, but I need to be honest: I don…
- John Donne0 quotes1572–1631# John Donne London's most scandalous clergyman was born ar…
- John F. Kennedy1 quote1917–1963**John F. Kennedy** The second son of Boston banker Joseph…
- John Holmes0 quotes1904–1962I need to flag an ambiguity here: there are multiple notabl…
- John Hughes0 quotes1950–2009# John Hughes The director who captured the precise emotion…
- John Lennon1 quote1940–1980**John Lennon (1940–1980)** Liverpool's docks shaped the bo…
- John Milius0 quotes# John Milius The son of a St. Louis advertising executive,…
- John Milton1 quote1608–1674# John Milton The blind poet who shaped English letters was…
- John Muir4 quotes1838–1914**John Muir** Born in Dunbar, Scotland in 1838, Muir emigra…
- John Powell0 quotes# John Powell An American mediator and dialogue facilitator…
- John Quincy Adams2 quotes1767–1848# John Quincy Adams The son of John Adams—himself a preside…
- John Ruskin1 quote1819–1900# John Ruskin The son of a wealthy London wine merchant, Jo…
- John Steinbeck0 quotes1902–1968# John Steinbeck February 27, 1902: John Ernst Steinbeck Jr…
- John Templeton1 quote1912–2008# John Templeton Born in Winchester, Tennessee, in 1912, Jo…
- John Wayne0 quotes1907–1979# John Wayne Marion Robert Morrison was born on May 26, 190…
- John Wooden9 quotes1910–2010# John Wooden October 14, 1910 brought John Wooden into the…
- Jon Kabat-Zinn1 quoteb. 1944# Jon Kabat-Zinn The son of a biologist father and artist m…
- Jonas Salk1 quote1914–1995# Jonas Salk On October 28, 1914, Jonas Edward Salk was bor…
- Jonatan Mårtensson1 quoteI don't have reliable biographical information about Jonata…
- Jonathan Nolan0 quotesb. 1976# Jonathan Nolan The younger brother of Christopher Nolan d…
- Jonathan Swift1 quote1667–1745# Jonathan Swift Dublin's St. Werburgh Church witnessed Swi…
- Jorge Luis Borges0 quotes1899–1986**Jorge Luis Borges** Buenos Aires claimed him in 1899, tho…
- José Ortega y Gasset0 quotes1883–1955# José Ortega y Gasset Madrid's intellectual aristocracy pr…
- Joseph Campbell2 quotes1904–1987# Joseph Campbell A mythology scholar born March 26, 1904,…
- Josh Billings0 quotes1818–1885# Josh Billings Henry Wheeler Shaw adopted the pen name Jos…
- Jules Renard1 quote1864–1910# Jules Renard The French writer was born in Chitry-les-Min…
- Julius J. Epstein1 quoteb. 1909# Julius J. Epstein The screenwriter who made cynicism witt…
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9 authors- Kahlil Gibran2 quotes1883–1931# Kahlil Gibran Born in Bsharri, a Maronite Christian villa…
- Karen Salmansohn1 quote**Karen Salmansohn** A Brooklyn-born graphic designer and a…
- Katharine Graham0 quotes1917–2001# Katharine Graham The Washington Post's unlikely heir arri…
- Katherine Anne Porter0 quotesb. 1890# Katherine Anne Porter Born in Indian Creek, Texas, in 189…
- Kavita Ramdas0 quotes# Kavita Ramdas An Indian-American human rights advocate an…
- Khalil Gibran3 quotes1883–1931# Khalil Gibran January 6, 1883 found Gibran born in Bsharr…
- Knute Rockne0 quotes1888–1930# Knute Rockne The son of a Norwegian immigrant carriage ma…
- Kobe Bryant0 quotes1978–2020**Kobe Bryant** Born in Philadelphia on August 23, 1978, to…
- Krishna0 quotes# Krishna The figure known as Krishna emerges from Sanskrit…
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20 authors- L. R. Knost0 quotes# L. R. Knost A parenting educator and author who emerged i…
- Lance Armstrong1 quoteb. 1971# Lance Armstrong A Texan born in 1971, Armstrong became cy…
- Lao Tzu10 quotes# Lao Tzu The man himself remains a puzzle. Tradition place…
- Lee Iacocca1 quoteb. 1924# Lee Iacocca Lido Anthony Iacocca was born October 15, 192…
- Leigh Brackett0 quotes1915–1978# Leigh Brackett A screenwriter and science fiction author…
- Leo Babauta1 quote# Leo Babauta A former newspaper editor and stressed father…
- Leo Buscaglia1 quote1924–1998# Leo Buscaglia An Italian-American psychologist born in Lo…
- Leo Tolstoy6 quotes1828–1910# Leo Tolstoy Born into Russian aristocracy on September 9,…
- Leon C. Megginson1 quote# Leon C. Megginson A Louisiana State University business p…
- Leonard Cohen0 quotes1934–2016# Leonard Cohen Born September 21, 1934, in Montreal to a p…
- Leonardo da Vinci1 quote1452–1519# Leonardo da Vinci Born around April 15, 1452, in Vinci—a…
- Les Brown0 quotesb. 1945**Les Brown** Born February 17, 1945, in Miami, Florida, Le…
- Lin Yutang1 quote1895–1976# Lin Yutang The Shanghai-born writer and philologist arriv…
- Lou Holtz1 quoteb. 1937# Lou Holtz The son of a Greek immigrant coal miner and a S…
- Louis Nizer0 quotesb. 1902# Louis Nizer The son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, Nizer wa…
- Louisa May Alcott1 quote1832–1888# Louisa May Alcott Concord, Massachusetts, in 1832 was hom…
- Louise Hay3 quotesb. 1926# Louise Hay In 1926, in Los Angeles, a girl was born into…
- Lowell Ganz0 quotes# Lowell Ganz A television writer and producer born in the…
- Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues0 quotes1715–1747# Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues A French moralis…
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe0 quotes1886–1969# Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Born March 27, 1886, in Aachen,…
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52 authors- Madeleine L'Engle0 quotesb. 1918# Madeleine L'Engle Born in New York City in 1918, Madelein…
- Mae West0 quotes1893–1980# Mae West The daughter of a former prizefighter and a cors…
- Maggie Kuhn0 quotes1905–1995# Maggie Kuhn In 1905, a Presbyterian minister's daughter w…
- Mahatma Gandhi37 quotes1869–1948# Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born Octobe…
- Malcolm Forbes0 quotes1919–1990# Malcolm Forbes The son of B.C. Forbes, who founded Forbes…
- Malcolm X1 quote1925–1965# Malcolm X Malcolm Little entered the world in Omaha, Nebr…
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13 authors- Napoleon Bonaparte7 quotes1769–1821# Napoleon Bonaparte The Corsican artillery officer who sei…
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6 authors- Octavia Butler0 quotes1947–2006# Octavia Butler Born in Pasadena, California in 1947, Octa…
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22 authors- P.T. Barnum1 quote1810–1891# P.T. Barnum On July 5, 1810, in Bethel, Connecticut, a bo…
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30 authors- R. Buckminster Fuller1 quote1895–1983# R. Buckminster Fuller The son of a Boston Brahmin family…
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32 authors- Saadi of Shiraz0 quotes1210–1291# Saadi of Shiraz The son of a jurist, Saadi was born in Sh…
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- Serena Williams1 quoteb. 1981**Serena Williams** Richard Williams drew up a plan on a Lo…
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24 authors- T. S. Eliot0 quotes1888–1965# T. S. Eliot In 1888, Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St.…
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26 authors- W. B. Yeats0 quotes1865–1939**W. B. Yeats** (1865–1939) Born in Dublin to a Protestant…
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