Quotes for Everyone

1. Be a voice not an echo
2. Master the art of observing
3. Let what you love be what you do.
4. All glory comes from daring to begin.
5. A drop of ink may make a million think.
6. They told me I couldn’t. That’s why I did.
7. Wear your tragedies as armor not shackles.
8. From the little spark may burst a mighty flame.
9. Don’t break the silence unless you can improve it.
10. Your character should preach more loudly than your words.
11. The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.

Quotes on Life

1. Every sun has to set.
2. Eat whatever you like, but dress as others do.
3. If they can't be bothered to meet up, don't force it.
4. A horse of good breed is not dishonored by his saddle.
5. Don't waste your time on those who don't appreciate you.
6. If they don't return your calls, don't call them or return theirs.
7. Every ambitious man is a captive and every covetous one a pauper.
8. Never make someone a priority for whom you are only an alternative.
9. A sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to our steps as we walk the tightrope of life.
10. There are plenty of people out there who would love your company and you just don't know it yet.
11. A wise man associating with the vicious becomes an idiot; a dog traveling with good men becomes a rational being.

11 Arabic Proverbs

1. A house divided cannot stand.
2. A change is as good as a rest.
3. Arrogance diminishes wisdom.
4. Ask thy purse what you should not buy.
5. A friend advises in his interest, not yours.
6. Ask the experienced rather than the learned.
7. Eat whatever you like, but dress as others do.
8. Every day of your life is a page of your history.
9. A known mistake is better than an unknown truth.
10. Arrogance is a weed that grows mostly on a dunghill.
11. A secret is like a dove: when it leaves my hand it takes wing.

Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

1. True life is lived when tiny changes occur. – Leo Tolstoy
2. We lost because we told ourselves we lost.” – Leo Tolstoy
3. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. – Leo Tolstoy
4. There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. – Leo Tolstoy
5. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. – Leo Tolstoy
6. The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom. – Leo Tolstoy
7. Some mathematician said: ‘Pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.' – Leo Tolstoy
8. The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life. – Leo Tolstoy
9. The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life. – Leo Tolstoy
10. All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. – Leo Tolstoy
11. Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. – Leo Tolstoy

Zaha Hadid's Quotes

In the memory of Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid, born on October 31, 1950, in Baghdad, Iraq was an Iraqi-born British architect. She was the first woman and the first Muslim to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize, winning it in 2004. She received the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011. She died of heart attack on March 31, 2016, at Miami, Florida, United States.

1. I really believe in the idea of the future.
2. My friendships are very important to me.
3. Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
4. Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard.
5. What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.
6. I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'
7. Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
8. Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
9. I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.
10. I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
11. Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.

Quote a Smile

1. All people smile in the same language.
2. You are not fully dressed without a smile.
3. A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
4. Never regret something that once made you smile.
5. The world always looks brighter from behind a smile.
6. You’ll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.
7. One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.
8. Give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
9. You’ve got to take the good with the bad, smile with the sad, love what you’ve got.
10. There is no weapon in the feminine armory to which men are so vulnerable as they are to a smile.
11. Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Quotes on Innovation

1. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
2. You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
3. If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.
4. I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.
5. Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.
6. You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.
7. Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
8. There has been opposition to every innovation in the history of mankind, with the possible exception of the sword.
9. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
10. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
11. In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.