Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
I don't like your manners.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
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Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
No one became poor by giving alms.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
As a writer, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories, and I give them money.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
His eyes have made love to me all evening.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
What do you feel like doing tonight ?
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
There is no substitute for hard work.
The list is an absolute good. The list is life.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
It's like, I became such a good person, I almost forgot... I'm a world class liar, baby !
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
God doesn't make junk.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Our intentions create our reality.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Do, or do not. There is no try.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
The sun will come up tomorrow
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
I like to watch.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
I am your number one fan.
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Action is the antidote to despair.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
Forget about it.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.
My love for you is a journey, starting at forever, and ending at never.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
I am your father.