In this post, you will find great Nothing Quotes from famous people, such as Regina Brett, Roy Lichtenstein, Soren Kierkegaard, Alexander the Great, Robert Orben. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.
The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‘yours,’ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don’t do that.
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
Out of the water, I am nothing.
I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
In baseball, you don’t know nothing.
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.
Talent is nothing without dedication and discipline, and dedication and discipline is a talent in itself.
A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
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.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.
I ain’t never had nothing good in life.
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don’t have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you’ve finished, nothing’s changed. You’ve still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.
The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!
Nothing exceeds like excess.
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
In my case, I can sincerely say that nothing is impossible… When I was saying I want to be No. 1 of the world, and I was seven or eight years old, most of the people were laughing at me because it seems like I have one percent of chances to do that, and I’ve done it.
A man’s real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
Nothing is ever as bad as it seems. Nor does it ever last as long as you think.
Something is better than nothing. Doin’ anything for a man, there’s investments involved, there’s time and production. It’s better to give him ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat.
You need to aim beyond what you are capable of. You must develop a complete disregard for where your abilities end. Try to do things that you’re incapable of… If you think you’re incapable of running a company, make that your aim… Make your vision of where you want to be a reality. Nothing is impossible.
I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
You got nothing to lose. You don’t lose when you lose fake friends.
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
Smile from your heart; nothing is more beautiful than a woman who is happy to be herself.
There’s nothing simple when you’re in this ‘Good Place.’
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
When you get something for nothing, you just haven‘t been billed for it yet.
With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It’s nothing new.
People say money ain’t nothing; money is basically everything.
Some people say I’ve got a five-octave range, which is ridiculous. That would mean I’d sing like Mariah Carey or that alien in ‘The Fifth Element.’ And I’m nothing like that blue alien. I’ve got a range of about 3 1/2 octaves.
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
There’s nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.
Nothing is given to you. Everything is earned. You have to have that mindset that you have to work every single day. Learn every single day.
I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination – the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.
You lose some, you win some. Nothing wrong with that at all.
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
It’s interesting, the more successful you become the more people want to give you stuff for nothing.
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
You’re trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don’t know these people, you don’t know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation.
A year or so ago I went through all the people in my life and asked myself: does this person inspire me, genuinely love me and support me unconditionally? I wanted nothing but positive influences in my life.
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
Nothing ends nicely, that’s why it ends.
Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.
When young people are powerful, our Party and People’s Army are powerful, and there is nothing for us to be afraid of.
When you have a dark side, nothing is ever as good as it seems.
Nothing endures but change.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing’s ever been as fun as baseball.
My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
Nothing can be done except little by little.
Let me tell you something – being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
There’s nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It helps you to focus your mind.
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!
Nothing is possible without men, but nothing lasts without institutions.
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it’s so great, because for a little bit I’m out of my brain, and it’s got nothing to do with me. I’m not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get together for a formal family photograph.
Fame is really strange. One day you’re not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply – yet everyone looks at you differently.
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
Nothing is more important to national security and the making and conduct of good policy than timely, accurate, and relevant intelligence. Nothing is more critical to accurate and relevant intelligence than independent analysis.
I will remember this day for the rest of my life. There is nothing you can say. It’s just like you won the match after the earthquake and it just feels great.
Do nothing which is of no use.
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
There is no such thing as Something for nothing.
There’s nothing scarier than a reckless prosecutor.
I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things: Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen.
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
Sometimes the most happy people in life are the ones with nothing. We can’t lose sight of the little things in life that should make us the happiest.
It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
If you change nothing, nothing will change.
A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
I’ll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.
There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished.
Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.
In truth, I have done nothing alone. God has called me and has been my pilot. The Holy Spirit has been my comforter, my guide, and my power source.
But to me nothing – the negative, the empty – is exceedingly powerful.
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
If you’re raised with a poverty mentality, nothing is going to change it. I do know some really stingy billionaires. I come from such a generation of hand-to-mouthers.
Having a superpower has nothing to do with the ability to fly or jump, or superhuman strength. The truest superpowers are the ones we all possess: willpower, integrity, and most importantly, courage.
I don’t care if you’re gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It’s all an illusion.
There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.
It is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so.
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
Don’t disrespect me, lie about it, and then come smile in my face and act like nothing’s wrong.
I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.
I feel you can be down and out but if you are determined, nothing can stop you from winning.
There’s so much grey to every story – nothing is so black and white.
I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.
I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.
There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way I can, even if it’s just by signing an autograph. A child’s smile is worth more than all the money in the world.
To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.
Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
Nothing good ever comes of violence.
Once you really know yourself, can’t nobody tell you nothing about you.
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Don’t let nobody tell you that you can’t do it. Love what you do until you don’t love it anymore. Nothing’s impossible.
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
My life has been nothing but a failure.
The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
I ain’t got nothing to prove to nobody.
We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man‘s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.
He who defends everything defends nothing.
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.
My father taught me not to overthink things, that nothing will ever be perfect, so just keep moving and do your best.
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself.
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand… Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends – your own chosen family. There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.
Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.
There’s nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
There’s nothing better than working up a good sweat.
I believe that if you work hard and you never get to enjoy it then what’s the point. You can’t take any of this with you, the money or nothing. The only thing you can take is experiences, memories and good times, so I like to get amongst it as much as I can.
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you’re thinking about it.
Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.
Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, the world and time, past or future, nothing exists for us in sleep. But we exist. Let us try to find out that which is changeless and which always exists.
The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‘Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.’
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Nothing’s better than a picnic.
There is nothing better than a proper breakfast.
It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There’s nothing like having a midget for a butler.
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.
If you work hard, nothing is impossible.
When you’re just like everybody else, you’ve nothing to offer other than your conformity.
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
Getting older is fine. There is nothing you can do to stop it so you might as well stay on the bus.
Without labor nothing prospers.
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Nothing is impossible.
There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
In my opinion happiness is nothing but satisfaction – satisfaction through work, thoughts and accomplishing our mission and vision.
Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.
I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.
Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
Nothing is a bigger waste of time than regretting the past and worrying about the future.
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn’t have mistakes, it’s nothing.
I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
I don’t have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.
Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Sometimes I like to go out; sometimes I like to chill and do nothing.
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.
There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
We all have to start somewhere, and doing something is better than nothing at all. Start small so you don’t get discouraged and give up. Remember it is all about consistency.
To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games – nothing like saving the world.
It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.
Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.
There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life.
The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
You know full well as I do the value of sisters’ affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.
I’m a nationalist. I’m a patriot. Nothing is wrong. I’m a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong. So, I’m a Hindu nationalist, so yes, you can say I’m a Hindu nationalist because I am a born Hindu, I’m patriotic, so nothing is wrong in it.
I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That’s a pretty good rule.
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.
Without football, my life is worth nothing.
Nothing cannot exist forever.
Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life – I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
