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Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.

No one became poor by giving alms.

French Proverb

If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

Romans 1218

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Jane Addams

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

William Shakespeare

What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Samuel Johnson

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

Confucius

Find the good -- and praise it.

Alex Haley

Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.

Scott Hayden

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.

Anonymous

Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Germaine De Stael

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

Thomas Edison

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

If it is to be it is up to me.

Unknown

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Robert H. Schuller

I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.

Helice Bridges

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

Richard B. Sheridan

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.

Colossians 315

My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.

Thomas Edison

Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Stephen Covey

Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.

Dorothy Day

Love is my religion, I could die for it.

John Keats

A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.

Anonymous

Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.

Melba Colgrove

Where there is a will, there is a way.

Unknown

When we place blame, we give away our power.

Greg Anderson

This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

Maxwell Scott, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

The life which is unexamined is not worth living

Socrates

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

John Davidson Rockefeller

If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.

Yogi Berra

Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.

Charlotte Vale, Now (1942)

What comes from the heart, touches the heart.

Don Sibet

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

W. Clement Stone

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

John Davidson Rockefeller

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination

Earl Nightingale

Rosebud.

Charles Foster Kane, Citizen Kane (1941)

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

William James

That love is all there is is all we know of love.

Emily Dickinson

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.

Dottie Walters

Love understands all languages.

Romanian Proverb

Only the educated are free.

Epictetus

Happiness is a state of activity.

Aristotle

Love is smiling on the inside and out.

Jennifer Wilson

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.

Japanese Proverb

Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.

Bill Jensen

Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

W. Stanley Mooneyham

The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

Love is a moment that lasts forever.

Julie Wittey

Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.

Val Saintsbury

Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

Ralph Blum

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

Stephen Covey

Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.

Bible

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Archimedes

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Shelley

Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.

Rusty Silvey

You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

P. T. Barnum

Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.

Harvey Mackay

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Albert Einstein

Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.

Stephen Covey

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Abraham Lincoln

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.

Unattributed

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.

Seneca

Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.

Swami Vivekananda

Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.

Robert Half

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

Robert Half

Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Stephen Covey

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

Live with passion !

Anthony Robbins

I'll have what she's having.

Customer, When Harry Met Sally (1989)

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I make wine at home. I make it out of raisins so that it will be aged automatically.

Steven Wright

Anything in life worth having is worth working for.

Andrew Carnegie

Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Franklin P. Jones

Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.

Marilyn Ferguson

They're here !

Carol Anne Freeling, Poltergeist (1982)

High expectations are the key to everything.

Sam Walton

Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.

Mary Baker Eddy

The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.

John Milton

No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.

Robert Half

Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?

Mark Twain

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Albert Einstein