Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
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.
Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.vivekanand.com http : www.indies.co.in
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
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.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
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.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Roses are red, Violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Be the best that you can be.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
What a dump.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
It's always too soon to quit !
The first duty of love is to listen.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
We rob banks.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Love is a fruit in season at all times.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Get away from her, you bitch !