Top 626 Nothing Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Nothing Quotes from famous people such as Pythagoras, Socrates, Saint Ignatius, Philip Larkin, E. M. Forster, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
Pythagoras
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Socrates
For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Saint Ignatius
In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.
Philip Larkin
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
E. M. Forster
Out of the water, I am nothing.
Duke Kahanamoku
Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.
James Huneker
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.
Franz Kafka
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.
Fetty Wap
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
William J. Clinton
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Charles Dickens
The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
Emile Zola
It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
Andrew Young
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
Immanuel Kant
Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
William S. Burroughs
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar Wilde
If you’re happy, if you’re feeling good, then nothing else matters.
Robin Wright
Inner beauty radiates from within, and there’s nothing more beautiful than when a woman feels beautiful on the inside.
Erin Heatherton
Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
Duke of Wellington
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Victor Hugo
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Socrates
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!
Audrey Hepburn
When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.
Michael Huffington
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
Walt Whitman
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
V. S. Naipaul
The differences that separate human beings are nothing compared to the similarities that bond us together.
Sophie Gregoire Trudeau
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.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nothing lasts forever – not even your troubles.
Arnold H. Glasow
To know nothing is the happiest life.
Desiderius Erasmus
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
Saint Francis de Sales
A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to s

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.
Maya Angelou
When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
Diogenes
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Scott Adams
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.
Jay Sean
This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.
Lord Byron
Nothing is given to man on earth – struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible – the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.
Andrew Bernstein
I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They’re really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action.
Mae Jemison
My feet ain’t got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller’s got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.
Satchel Paige
I grew up with pretty much nothing – in the hood, the ghetto – whatever you want to call it.
Deshaun Watson
In just about every area of society, there’s nothing more important than ethics.
Henry Paulson
A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table – There’s nothing wrong with them, but it’s hard to stop thinking about it.
Garrison Keillor
Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.
Deepak Chopra
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.
John Wesley
Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life – a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
Princess Diana
Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.
Charlie Chaplin
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
Honore de Balzac
Nothing’s going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.
Zoe Kazan
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.
Napoleon Hill
It is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so.
Josh Billings
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.
Rafael Nadal
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Gordon B. Hinckley
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.
Mika
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Jules Renard
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
Lao Tzu
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
Carl Jung
Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.
Jerome K. Jerome
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Henry Ward Beecher
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
Marcus Aurelius
There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.
Morihei Ueshiba
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctan

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
Joseph Addison
Apartheid – both petty and grand – is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.
Steven Biko
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
Richard Rorty
If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it.
Andy Warhol
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.
Archibald MacLeish
Just dream big. Go for it. There’s nothing holding you back. You can have ups and downs, but if you believe in something, keep the faith; keep fighting. And don’t let people put you down.
Geraint Thomas
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Talent without working hard is nothing.
Cristiano Ronaldo
Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
Mary Wortley Montagu
Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they’ve got nothing to lose.
Robin Williams
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
Swami Vivekananda
Nothing is easy in cricket. Maybe when you watch it on TV, it looks easy. But it is not. You have to use your brain and time the ball.
Rohit Sharma
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
Honore de Balzac