Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Do you want a leg or a breast ?
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
Woody, I know what your problem is. You're just like me. Trash !
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
We tend to live up to our expectations.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
You don't understand ! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Live with passion !
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. If you kick'em all out, you'll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.
Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Things do not change we change.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
The book you don't read cant help.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Cross your bridges.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
When you shoot a mime, should you use blanks ?
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
Somebody stop me !
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
The best way out is always through.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
They call me Mister Tibbs !
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.