Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
With my brains and your looks, we could go places.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Attica ! Attica !
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.
That dirty, double-crossin' rat !
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
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.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
Well, it's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
My love for you is a journey, starting at forever, and ending at never.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
You've got to ask yourself one question : Do I feel lucky ? Well, do ya, punk ?
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
There's no crying in baseball !
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
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.
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
Rosebud.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.
We're on a mission from God.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
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.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.