Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Never stop dreaming.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
A healthy outside starts from the inside
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
We'll always have Paris.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Well done is better than well said.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Don’t run away from things that are unpleasant in order to embrace things that are pleasant. Put your hands in the earth. Face the difficulties and grow new happiness.
One million dollars !
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
A bold onset is half the battle.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
Live your life and forget your age.
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Roses are red, Violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Live with passion.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
It's good to be the king !
The successful man is the average man, focused.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.