The best Quotes by Marie Curie

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Life Motivation

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Humanity Ideas Gossip & Rumors

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Change Selflessness

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Understanding Fear

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For generations, Warsaw has stood where liberty has been challenged and liberty has prevailed.

Joe Biden - March 2022, Speech in Warsaw

Warsaw

They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Warsaw - which is kinda the same.

Warsaw

Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.

Grandmother Willow in Pocahontas

Work Motivation

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas Edison

Work Giving Up Beginning

Ich gehe langsam, aber ich gehe nie zurück.

Abraham Lincoln

Progress

Without progress there will be stagnation and decay. There again, progress for progress's sake must be discouraged, for our tried and tested traditions often require no tinkering. A balance, then, between old and new, between permanence and change, between tradition and innovation.

Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Progress

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

Life Pain Hurting Falling down

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Pat in Silver Linings

Life Breakup

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Courage Motivation

To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.

Elijah Mikaelson in The Originals - Season 1 Episode 8

Breakup Beginning Motivation

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Humanity Breakup Grief & Condolence

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Greed Humanity Money

Sometimes all a girl really needed was a very bad idea.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games - The Hawthorne Legacy

Ideas

Great execution is at least 10 times more important and a 100 times harder than a good idea.

Sam Altman

Ideas Startups

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

Bob Marley

Gossip & Rumors Perfection

What other people think of you is none of your business.

Paulo Coelho

Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

It is not the strong or the smart that survive, but the ones who can bring about change.

Celestia Ludenberg in Danganronpa

Change

If you don't change with the times, the times are going to change you.

Marv Levy

Change

Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.

Stephenie Meyer in Twilight

Death Selflessness

Time after time after time I do all this shit for other people, and then I wake up and I'm empty. I have nothing.

Tifanny in Silver Linings

Breakup Selflessness

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Understanding

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

Understanding Peace Volkstrauertag

There's a lot of money to be made in scaring people.

Dana Scully in The X-Files

Fear Conspiracy Theories

Admitting your fears is the first and most difficult step in overcoming them.

Tenzin in The Legend of Korra

Fear

Things never happen the same way twice.

C.S. Lewis in The Chronicles of Narnia

Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different...

C.S. Lewis

Past Change

Every Star that you see in the Sky might be a sun to someone.

Carl Sagan

Stars

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan

Imagination

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist knows it.

Robert Oppenheimer

Optimism Pessimism

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

Robert Oppenheimer

Nuclear Weapons

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Stephen Hawking

Knowledge Intelligence

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Stephen Hawking

Intelligence Silence

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

Niels Bohr

Physics Atoms

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

Niels Bohr

Experience Failures & Mistakes

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

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