Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
It's showtime !
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.
Love is friendship set on fire.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Do you want a leg or a breast ?
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
I think it pisses god off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
For with god all things are possible.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Without a general an army is lost.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
You always succeed in producing a result.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The good physician treats the disease, the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.
Do you think that there is a word that contains all of the vowels? Unquestionably.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me ?
Never stop dreaming.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
It's never too late.
Why don't you come up sometime and see me ?
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf ? Didn't you hear 'em ? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding.
Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
They say you were shot in the tabloids.
He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people ?
The hottest love has the coldest end.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
And that's how you play "Get the Guests".
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Bitterness imprisons life, love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life, love empowers it. Bitterness sours life, love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life, love heals it. Bitterness blinds life, love anoints it's eyes.