Write Your TOEFL Essay With Famous Quotes

Check these Famous Quotes!

You need to try to use them– 1-2 quotes for every essay.

TOPIC 1- Family & Friends & Love

 

Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.

-Thomas Carlyle

People need to know one another to be at their honest best.

-Robbins Staca

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

-Publius Syrus

All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

-Leo Tolstoy

Friendship is both a source of pleasure and a component of good health.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

TOPIC 2- Study & Work & Effort

 

If you don’t learn to think when you are young, you may never learn.

-Thomas Edison

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

-Philip Dormer Chesterfield

It takes a lot of thought and effort and downright determination to be agreeable.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

When work is a pleasure, life is joy! When work is duty, life is slavery.

-Maxim Gorky

It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.

-Winston Churchill

 

TOPIC 3- Relationship & Experience & Attitude

A man is called selfish, not pursuing his own good, but neglecting his neighbor’s.

-Richard Whately

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

-James Russell Lowell

Throughout life, we rely on small groups of people for love, admiration, respect, moral support and help.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.

-Harry Emerson Fosdick

Treat other people as you hope they will treat you.

-Aesop

Experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficult than their tongues.

-Bendict de Spinoza

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

-Winston Churchill

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

-Burke Edmund

If you fight for yourself, only you can win; when you fight for your marriage, you both win.

-Pearsall Paul

When you want knowledge like you want air under water then you will get it.

-Socrates

Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image.

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize.

-Robert Half

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

-William Hazlitt

A man, like a watch, is to be valued by this manner of going.

-William Penn

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imagination.

-Alfred North Whitehead

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

-Bradley Omar

Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.

-Dan Stanfort

Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.

-Bertrand Russell

Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other.

-Benjamin Franklin

Follow your own course, and let people talk.

-Alghieri Dante

If you would have a thing well done, you must do it yourself.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.

-Desiderius Eramus

Our deeds determine us, much as we determine our deeds.

-George Eliot

When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty little package.

-John Ruskin

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.

-George Bernard Shaw

Optimists always picture themselves accomplishing their goals.

-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Almost any situation —good or bad— is affected by the attitude we bring to.

-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Perhaps you can’t control your job, but you may be able to make other changes in your life.

-Alan Loy Mcginnis

The Chinese word for crisis is divided into two characters, one meaning danger and the other meaning opportunity.

-Burejer

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss.

-Thomas Carlyle

I find life an exciting business —— and most exciting when it is lived for others.

-Helen Keller

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

-John Ray

I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got down to work.

-Pearl Buck

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from books.

-Benjamin Disraeli

The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

-Thomas Bobington Macaulay

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

-John Albion Andrew