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Here are some of the most popular persons on Quotlr.
James Clear
American Writer
"Positive emotions cultivate habits. Negative emotions destroy them."
Sam Altman
American venture-capitalist in Silicon Valley.
"Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started."
MrBeast
American YouTuber
"I've always just wanted to make videos for a living, and I've been able to do that."
Jurgen Klopp
German Football manager
"I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people."
Jensen Huang
American Entrepreneur
"When you increase productivity, economies become better."
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Ukranian President
"The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride."
Michael Saylor
American Entrepreneur
"Bitcoin is money. Everything else is credit."
Cathie Wood
American Investor
"In a world driven by disruption, make sure you're on the right side of change."
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Taylor Swift
American Singer
"You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for."
Tucker Carlson
American Journalist
"Most of the time, you can beat a woman in an argument."
Alex Hormozi
American Entrepreneur
"The pain you feel today builds the strength you have tomorrow."
Jocko Willink
American Author
"Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else."
Tom Bilyeu
American YouTuber
"Sometimes, just putting in the work is all you need to do to get strong. So put in the work."
PewDiePie
Swedish YouTuber and video game commentator
"Money can't buy you happiness but it buys you all the things you don't have, even friends."
Bessie Coleman
American Aviator
"My people are just as interested in flying as any other race. Their interest needs only the awakening."
Ronald McNair
physicist, astronaut
"Before you can make a dream come true, you must first have one."
Matthew Henson
American Explorer
"The path is not easy, the climbing is rugged and hard, but the glory at the end is worthwhile."
Activists
Quotes from famous activists
Noam Chomsky
American Activist
"Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
American Activist
"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him."
Malala Yousafzai
Pakistani Activist
"Why is it, that giving guns is so easy, but giving books is so hard?"
Dolores Huerta
American Activist
"We can't let people drive wedges between us... because there's only one human race."
Greta Thunberg
Swedish Activist
"I think it is insane that people are gathered here to talk about the climate and they arrive here in private jets."
Jose Ramos-Horta
Politician from East Timor and Nobel Prize laureate
"We believe that human rights transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty."
Psychologists
Quotes from famous psychologists
Steven Pinker
Canadian Psychologist
"Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?"
Viktor E. Frankl
Austrian Psychologist
"When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves."
Albert Bandura
Canadian Psychologist
"Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure."
Jordan Peterson
Canadian Psychologist
"Creative exploration [is] impossible, without (humble) acknowledgement of the unknown."
Philip Zimbardo
American Psychologist
"Academic success depends on research and publications."
Alison Gopnik
American Psychologist
"Being a grandmother is a wonderful thing, so my advice is skip the children. Go straight to the grandchildren."
Scientists
Quotes from famous scientists
Carl Sagan
American Astronomer
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
Stephen Hawking
English Scientist
"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."
Andrew Wiles
English Mathematician
"Always try the problem that matters most to you."
Edward Witten
American Mathematician
"1/r^2 has a nasty singularity at r=0, but it did not bother Newton-the Moon is far enough."
Craig Venter
American biotechnologist and businessman
"We have learned nothing from the genome."
Alan Guth
American theoretical physicist and cosmologist
"The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch."
Theologians
Quotes from famous theologians
Desmond Tutu
South African Cleric
"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
German Theologian
"Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God."
Albert Schweitzer
German Theologian
"The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others."
Ernest Holmes
American Theologian
"Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it."
Rowan Williams
English Theologian
"Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable."
Al-Ghazali
Persian Sunni Muslim scholar and mystic
"To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate."
Economists
Quotes from famous economists
Muhammad Yunus
Bangladeshi banker, economist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
"People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator."
Paul Krugman
American Economist
"Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups."
Saifedean Ammous
Palestinian Economist
"Instead of saving for the possibility of a rainy day, fiat makes you borrow against all of your future sunny days."
Jeffrey Sachs
American Economist
"The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia."
Thomas Piketty
French economist
"When inequality gets to an extreme, it is completely useless for growth."
Yanis Varoufakis
Greek economist and politician
"Fences and borders are a sign of weakness."
Artists
Quotes from famous artists
Ai Weiwei
Chinese Conceptual artist
"Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be."
David Hockney
English Artist
"The camera can't see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, which is much more interesting."
Yayoi Kusama
Japanese Artist
"My ideas and creativity are the sources of inspiration for me."
Anselm Kiefer
German Artist
"Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning."
Takashi Murakami
Japanese artist
"Like many other kids, I liked watching anime."
Jenny Saville
British painter
"I like making work in my studio day in and day out, but I'm not so interested in the business side"
Political Scientists
Quotes from famous political scientists
Norman Finkelstein
American political scientist and author
"International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence."
Robert Gilpin
political scientist
"A market is not politically neutral; its existence creates economic power which one actor can use against another."
Kenneth Waltz
American political scientist and international relations theoretician
"In anarchy there is no automatic harmony ."
Sheila Jeffreys
British feminist
"Recent literature on transsexualism in the lesbian community draws connections with the practices of sadomasochism."
Charles A. Murray
Political Scientist
"It was raining cats and dogs, and I fell in a poodle."
Francis Fukuyama
American political scientist, political economist, and author
"The desire for economic prosperity is itself not culturally determined but almost universally shared"
Investors
Quotes from famous political investors
Warren Buffett
American Business magnate
"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
Charlie Munger
American business magnate, lawyer, investor, and philanthropist
"The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more."
George Soros
Hungarian Investor
"I'm not better than the next trader, just quicker at admitting my mistakes and moving on to the next opportunity."
Ray Dalio
American Investor
"Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field."
Peter Lynch
American Investor
"Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business."
Carl Icahn
American Investor
"Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. Me, I make money studying natural stupidity."
Presidents
Quotes from famous political presidents
Vladimir Putin
Russian President
"We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal."
Narendra Modi
14th Prime Minister of India
"Cleanliness & good sanitation in schools is a matter of high importance."
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Turkish President
"A country without a strong leader will go down."
Xi Jinping
Chinese President
"We should all be broad-minded, following the underlying trend of the times and proactively expand opening-up."
Nayib Bukele
Salvadoran President
"The only limit to the progress of a country is the willpower of its people."
Javier Milei
Argentine Politician
"If a country lacks a reputation, businessmen will not invest until they see the fiscal adjustment."
Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Emirati President
"If your point of view is positive, you will see the challenges in the future as opportunities."
Kim Jong-un
North Korean President
"Want to know what’s more destructive than a nuclear bomb? Words."
Mathematicians
Quotes from famous political mathematicians
Blaise Pascal
French Mathematician
"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."
Alfred North Whitehead
English Mathematician
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."
Isaac Newton
English Mathematician
"Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation"
Rene Descartes
French Mathematician
"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."
Alan Turing
English Mathematician
"Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."
Eric Weinstein
American Mathematician
"Earth has now, collectively, gone mad. I think I mean that literally."
Physicians
Quotes from famous political physicians
Andrew Weil
American Physician
"Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food."
Steven Gundry
American Physician
"Inflammation is the silent killer lurking behind many of our modern health problems."
Peter Attia
Canadian Physician
"Instead of mindless exercise, train with a specific purpose to become a kick-ass one-hundred-year-old."
Mark Hyman, M.D.
American Physician
"It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics?"
Robert W. Malone
American Physician
"Neither masks nor vaccines prevent infection, replication, or transmission of the Omicron strain of SARS-CoV-2."
Sanjay Gupta
American neurosurgeon, medical reporter and writer
"We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States."
Biologists
Quotes from famous political biologists
Richard Dawkins
English Biologist
"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world."
Gary Brecka
American Biologist
"The best way to break the cycle of opression is to make your dreams a reality."
James D. Watson
American Biologist
"Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them."
Thomas Henry Huxley
English Biologist
"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
Richard Lewontin
American evolutionary biologist and mathematician
"In fact perhaps the only law in biology is that all flesh is mortal and all species become extinct eventually."
John Maynard Smith
British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist
"Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled."
Historians
Quotes from famous political historians
Hannah Arendt
German Historian
"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."
Michel Foucault
French Historian
"Where there is power, there is resistance."
Arnold J. Toynbee
British Historian
"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play."
Niall Ferguson
Historian
"The law of unintended consequences is the only real law of history."
Simon Schama
Art Historian
"Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle."
Jon Meacham
American journalist and biographer
"There is nothing new under the sun."
Entrepreneurs
Quotes from famous political entrepreneurs
Naval Ravikant
Indian Entrepreneur
"The best diet is the “no excuses” diet and the best workout is the “man up” workout."
Peter Thiel
American Entrepreneur
"Today's 'best practices' lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried."
Mo Gawdat
Egyptian Entrepreneur
"If there is one thing that will change your life forever, it is recognizing that the voice talking to you is not you!"
Steven Bartlett
British Entrepreneur
"The Black sheep in any group is often just the person who sees through everyone else’s bullsh*t."
Vivek Ramaswamy
American Entrepreneur
"It’s meaningless to classify people by skin color."
Podcasters
Quotes from famous political podcasters
Tim Ferriss
American Author
"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do."
Joe Rogan
American broadcaster
"Don’t be afraid to stand up for what you believe in; that’s what makes us unique and special."
Jay Shetty
British Podcaster
"When you learn a little, you feel you know a lot. But when you learn a lot, you realize you know very little."
Rich Roll
American Athlete
"Inspiration is easy. Transformation, and the heavy lifting required to achieve it, is hard."
Chris Williamson
English Podcaster
"The best diet is one you don't realise you're following."
Ben Shapiro
American conservative political commentator and writer
"Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans"
Famous Authors
Quotes from famous political authors
Robert Greene
American Author
"Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others—that is too high a price to pay."
Chris Voss
American Negotiation expert
"The sweetest two words in any negotiation are actually: That’s right."
Morgan Housel
American Author
"The most valuable personal finance asset is not needing to impress anyone."
Ryan Holiday
businessperson and writer
"Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective."
Konstantin Kisin
Russian-British Author
"The media... is not yours to co-opt or use to spread propaganda. You are merely stewards of the industry."
Writers
Quotes from famous political writers
J. K. Rowling
British Novelist
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
Stephen King
American Author
"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win."
Margaret Atwood
Canadian Novelist
"But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency."
Khaled Hosseini
novelist
"One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls."
Kazuo Ishiguro
Japanese Author
"There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one."
Alex Epstein
American writer and energy policy commentator
"I believe the evidence is clear that nuclear is the safest energy technology."
Motivational Speakers
Quotes from famous political motivational speakers
Tony Robbins
American author
"No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying."
Robert Kiyosaki
American Investor
"Sometimes you win, and sometimes you learn"
Robin Sharma
Canadian self-help writer
"Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results."
Simon Sinek
English Author
"A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other."
Les Brown
American Motivational speaker
"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."
Robin S. Sharma
American Author
"Make your faith larger than your fears and your dreams larger than your doubts."
Grant Cardone
American Speaker
"Your greatness is limited only by the investments you make in yourself."
Neuroscientists
Quotes from famous political neuroscientists
David Eagleman
American neuroscientist and author
"What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time."
Matthew Walker
British Neuroscientist
"When sleep is abundant, there is vitality and health."
Andrew Huberman
American Neuroscientist
"Fear is a sensation. Courage is a decision."
Carl Hart
American neuroscientist known for research in drug abuse and drug addiction
"We should decriminalize all drugs. The assumptions on which our drug policies are based are flawed."
Rappers
Quotes from famous political rappers
Tupac Shakur
American Musician
"You never stop loving someone. You just learn to live without them."
Lil Wayne
American Rapper
"When i started flirting with the hustle, failure became my ex, now I'm engaged to the game and married to success."
Snoop Dogg
American Musician
"Be your own leader, be your own self, step out of my shadows and be your own person."
ASAP Rocky
American Rapper
"The worst thing a good girl could do to you is break your heart."
Gucci Mane
Rapper
"I don't give a damn how you feel about me, I sip lean pure codeine and I don't give a damn what you say about me."
Lil Uzi Vert
American Rapper
"In my elementary days, I took a liking to rock & roll music. I dabbed into Marilyn Manson, which became my favorite."
Politicians
Quotes from famous political politicians
Bernie Sanders
American Politician
"A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little."
Angela Merkel
German Statesman
"I might bend, but I will NEVER break because it's in my nature as a strong woman."
Boris Johnson
British Politician
"I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis."
Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli Leader
"To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war."
Shinzo Abe
Prime Minister of Japan
"I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what."
Matteo Salvini
Italian politician
"I'm a federalist. I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization."
Biochemists
Quotes from famous political biochemists
Francis Crick
English Biochemist
"You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking."
Linus Pauling
American Biochemist
"You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency."
Jennifer Doudna
American Biochemist
"The power to control evolution, to affect how species change, will be in the hands of humans."
Emmanuelle Charpentier
French Biochemist
"One should be surrounded by people who can help. We are all sitting in the same boat."
Frederick Sanger
English Biochemist
"Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations."
Dorothy Hodgkin
British chemist
"I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals."
Athletes & Sport Heroes
Quotes from famous political athletes and sport persons
Michael Jordan
American Basketball player
"If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome."
LeBron James
American Basketball player
"Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed."
Conor McGregor
Irish Mixed martial artist
"Look out for those who look out for you. Loyalty is everything."
Tiger Woods
American Athlete
"Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish."
Tom Brady
American American football player
"I think sometimes in life the biggest challenges end up being the best things that happen in your life."
Serena Williams
American Tennis player
"We're sisters, we're roommates, we're all that."
Kobe Bryant
American Athlete
"These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess."
Michael Phelps
American Swimmer
"Don't put a limit on anything. The more you dream the farther you get."
Cristiano Ronaldo
Portuguese Footballer
"Dreams are not what you see in your sleep, dreams are things which do not let you sleep."
John Cena
Professional Wrestler
"There are moments in life where it gets so hectic that time becomes a blur. Keep calm and never give up."
Usain Bolt
Jamaican Athlete
"Believe in your dreams and that anything is possible."
Novak Djokovic
Serbian Tennis player
"Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands."
Roger Federer
Swiss Athlete
"You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you."
Rafael Nadal
Spanish tennis player
"Losing is not my enemy..fear of losing is my enemy."
Lionel Messi
Argentinian Footballer
"You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it."
Virat Kohli
Indian Cricketer
"Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success."
Lewis Hamilton
British racing driver
"If you don't have the balls to brake late, that's your problem."
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Swedish football player
"We usually say that you cannot become a legend before death. But I am a living legend"
Kelly Slater
American surfer
"It's like the mafia. Once you're in - your in. There's no getting out."
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Cricketer
"I have three dogs at home. Even after losing a series or winning a series, they treat me the same way."