Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
No one became poor by giving alms.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
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.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
If it is to be it is up to me.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
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.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
Rosebud.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
That love is all there is is all we know of love.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Love understands all languages.
Only the educated are free.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
Well done is better than well said.
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
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.
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Love is a moment that lasts forever.
Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
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.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
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.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Live with passion !
I'll have what she's having.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
I make wine at home. I make it out of raisins so that it will be aged automatically.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
They're here !
High expectations are the key to everything.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.