Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Dreams don't work unless you do.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
It is always your next move.
Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
Act or accept.
One, two, Freddy's coming for you.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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 !
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
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.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
Do you want a leg or a breast ?
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
Mama says, Stupid is as stupid does.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
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 sees roses without thorns.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
Hi-Yo, Silver !
There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun, a swiss watch and a woman from anywhere.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
I know that I will die laughing.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.