Get to know Ovid's quotes

Publius Ovidius Naso, also known as Ovid, was a Roman poet considered
as one of the three canonical poets of Latin Literature
(along with Horace and Virgil).






Here are Ovid's quotes:



1. "At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time."

2. "Fortune and love favor the brave."

3. "Endure and persist, this pain will turn good by and by."

4. "The bold adventurer succeeds the best."

5. "Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish."

Quotes from Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, a Spanish playwright, novelist and poet. His legendary success, the novel “Don Quixote”, first published in 1605, has been released in 700 editions and translated in major languages.

Here are some quotes from Miguel de Cervantes:

1. "Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. "

2. "Every man is the son of his own works."

3. "Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes."

4. "Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."

5. “Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.”

Ruth Elizabeth Davis' quotes

Ruth Elizabeth Davis, better known to the world as Bette Davis was an American actress who ran a very successful career for 50 years. Her successful movies include The Letter (1940), The Little Foxes (1941), Now, Voyager (1942), Watch on the Rhine (1943), and The Corn Is Green (1945).

Here are her quotes:

1. "The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead."

2. "To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. "

3. "My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose."

4. "I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless. "

5. "Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."

Quotes from Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon, an English statesman and author. He authored “The Proficience and Advancement of Learning” (1605) and also wrote “In felicem memoriam Elizabethae”, a eulogy for the queen written in 1609.

Inspiring quotes from Francis Bacon:

1. "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

2. "Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly."

3. "There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying."

4. “As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.”

Coco Chanel's quotes

Gabrielle Chanel who we all know as Coco Chanel was a French dress designer whose career enjoyed 60 years on top of Parisian haute couture. Her empire was made phenomenal by the extraordinary success of the perfume Chanel No. 5, which was introduced in 1922.

Here are some inspiring quotes from Coco Chanel:

1. "Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."

2. "I've never done anything by halves."

3. "Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them."

4. "I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like."

5. "Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."

Louisa May Alcott's quotations

Louisa May Alcott, an American novelist best known for her novel "Little Women" published in1868.

Quotes from Louisa Alcott:

1. "He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."

2. "Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well."

3. "We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing."

4. "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

5. "Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it."

Quotes from Henry Valentine Miller

Henry Valentine Miller, an American painter and writer, known for his famousnovels Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn and Black Spring.

Here are Henry Miller's quotes:

1. “Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire. ”

2. “Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”

3. "Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring."

4. "In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest."

5. "What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs."