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Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.

Thomas Edison

The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.

Anonymous

Shut up and deal.

Fran Kubelik, The Apartment (1960)

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.

W. R. Inge

Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Thomas Edison

"I guess our offense was boring me a little bit" - when asked about dozing off on the sideline.

Joe Flacco

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Abraham Lincoln

Live life with passion.

Unknown

Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.

Spanish Proverb

Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.

Georgette Mosbacher

The show must go on.

Proverb

A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.

Confucius

It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.

Louis Kossuth

Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kierkegaard

Love like you'll never be hurt.

William Purkey

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Bruce Lee

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Elbert Hubbard

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

You're so money, and you don't even know it.

Trent, Swingers (1996)

The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.

Blood Of The Martyr

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Jim Rohn

We tend to live up to our expectations.

Earl Nightingale

Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.

Lester Sumrall

And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.

Bree Daniels, Klute (1971)

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.

John Milton

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Von Schiller Fulton J. Sheen

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Dale Carnegie

Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.

Admiral Collingwood

A friend's love says. If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says, you'll never need anything, i'll be there.

Jimi Hollemans

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.

John Merrick, The Elephant Man (1980)

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Samuel Johnson

You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

W. Clement Stone

Keep the Faith.

Unknown

I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore !

Howard Beale, Network (1976)

I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Hugh Downs

In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.

Dalai Lama

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Alfred Whitefield

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

Voltaire

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.

Machiavelli

Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

Swami Vivekananda

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

David Schwartz

The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.

Norman Vincent Peale

Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.

Rupert Pupkin, The King Of Comedy (1983)

Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.

Nigerian Proverb

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Dennis Waitley

The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.

John Eldredge

If you can't accept losing, you can't win.

Vince Lombardi

I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.

Bruce Lee

How many chiropractors does it take to change a light bulb ? Just one, but it requires 21 office visits and 4 X-rays.

Unknown

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.

Lee Iacocca

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Henry David Thoreau

If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.

Yusuf Tara

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is a many splendered thing.

Nat King Cole

Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.

Harvey Mackay

This is nothing !

Stanley Motss, Wag The Dog (1997)

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Shirley Lord

Most ball games are lost, not won.

Casey Stengel

Success is never ending, failure is never final.

Dr. Robert Schuller

Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

George William Curtis

I am fond of only what comes from the heart.

Martha Washington

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Paul Sweeney

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.

Cicero

It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.

Dennis Waitley

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Anonymous

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

Dale E. Turner

Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.

Cathy Carlyle

Not many people know it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer.

Franz Liebkind, The Producers Avco (1968)

Impossible situations can become possible miracles.

Robert H. Schuller

What comes from the heart, touches the heart.

Don Sibet

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.

John Bulwer

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.

Henry Ward Beecher

He who hesitates is lost.

Proverb

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.

Tom Clancy

Don't hide your light under a bushel.

Bible

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.

Zen Proverb

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Portuguese Proverb

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Slow but steady wins the race.

Unknown

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.

Winston Churchill

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

Albert Einstein

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".

Norman Vincent Peale