Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
Happiness is a choice.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Where there's life, there's hope.
I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Success is a journey not a destination.
Keep the Faith.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
The best things in life are free.
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle I find it too confining.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Show me the money !
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Love understands all languages.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into !
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
There are simply too many notes.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
Face it girls, I'm older and I have more insurance.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
I bet you can squeal like a pig.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
My love for you is a journey, starting at forever, and ending at never.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.