The best Quotes by Niccoló Machiavelli

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War is young men dying and old men talking. You know this. Ignore the politics.

Odysseus in Troy

War Politics

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

Albert Einstein

Mathematics Politics

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

Don Lucchesi in The Godfather - Teil 3

Money Politics

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

Politics

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Politics

We've all got both light and dark inside of us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Morality

Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Decisions Morality

It is our choices that makes us who we are, and we always have a choice to do what's right.

Peter Parker in Spider-Man

Decisions Morality

A true warrior does not fight because he wishes to but because he has to.

Christopher Paolini in The Inheritance Cycle - Brisingr

Warriors Morality

I'm starting to realize more than I ever wanted to, that doing the right thing doesn't always make you feel good.

Thomas Adam Kirkman in Designated Survivor - Season 1 Episode 4

Morality

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

Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder.

Stephenie Meyer in Twilight

Life Death Suicide

Well you can't never let anything happen to him. Then nothing would ever happen to him!

Dory in Finding Nemo

Life Risk Safety

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

Life Optimism Dancing Rain Positive Quotes

Simba: "Ouh. Jeez, what was that for?"
Rafiki: "It doesn't matter, it's in the past."
Simba: "Yeah, but it still hurts."
Rafiki: "Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it."

Rafiki in The Lion King

Experience Past

Oh yes. The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.

Rafiki in The Lion King

Experience Past

I'm strong, because I've been weak.
I'm fearless, because I've been afraid.
I am wise, because I've been foolish.

Experience

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Kahlil Gibran

Experience Scars

To regret one's own experience is to arrest one's own development.

Oscar Wilde

Experience

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

Children & Childhood Birthday Age

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Friedrich Schiller in Don Carlos

Youth Men Birthday Age

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Jean Paul Getty

Life Birthday Age Sand

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Coco Chanel

Beauty Birthday Age

I'm going to break precedent and tell you my one candle wish: that you would have a life as lucky as mine, where you can wake up one morning and say, 'I don't want anything more.' Sixty-five years. Don't they go by in a blink?

William Parrish in Meet Joe Black

Life Birthday

You're never too old to be young.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Age

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Youth Age Generations

A woman can be gorgeous at 19, charmimg at 29, but only at 39 she is irresistible for the rest of her life. And no woman that has been irresistible, ever turns older than 39.

Coco Chanel

Women Age

I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.

Walt Disney

Children & Childhood Age

"Oh yes, time flies and before you know it you're old," said Pippi. "Come autumn I'll be ten, and I suppose I'll be past my prime then."

Astrid Lindgren in Pippi Longstocking

Age

The number of "followers" you have does not make you better than anyone else. Hitler had millions, Jesus had 12.

Adolf Hitler Jesus Popularity Social Media

How others see you is not important. How you see yourself is everything.

Harvey Specter in Suits

Self-Confidence Popularity Motivation

Konrad Adenauer

Harvey Specter in Suits

Oscar Wilde

Gossip & Rumors Popularity

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

Sarah Dessen in Keeping the Moon

Self-Confidence Respect

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Bruce Lee

Character Knowledge Respect

Is it better to be feared or respected? I say, is it too much to ask for both?

Iron Man - Tony Stark

Respect

If you don't stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do?

Miranda Lambert

Respect

We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

Taylor Swift

Opinions Respect

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

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

China Hackers

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