Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
To infinity and beyond !
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
Happy wife, happy life.
You become what you think about.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
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.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
L-I-V-E ! Live ! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
How can you tell the difference between a run-over snake and a run-over lawyer? There are skid marks in front of the snake.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
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.
Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
One million dollars !
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
I saw and loved.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Love is the river of life in the world.
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Honesty is the best image.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
Change comes from within.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Shut up and deal.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Many hands make light work.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.
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.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.