Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The book you don't read cant help.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
What hump ?
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
They're here !
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
He who hesitates is lost.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Many hands make light work.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
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 not only something you feel. It's something you do.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
In love beggar and king are equal.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Work is love made manifest.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
I don't like your manners.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
The loving are the daring.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
You sing-a high.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
Press forsake! Go ahead and press 'forsake now' !
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are made.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.