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

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

James F. Bymes

For with god all things are possible.

Bible

Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

Dean Wormer, National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)

Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !

Ira Gershwin

The greater the obstacle the more glory.

Moliere

In imagination, there's no limitation.

Mark Victor Hansen

Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.

T. Dufek

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.

La Rochefoucauld

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

Sam Keen

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.

Kim Rohn

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.

Buddha

Union gives strength.

Aesop

Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.

Albert Einstein

Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.

Washington Irving

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Henry Ford

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As a writer, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories, and I give them money.

Martin Cruz Smith

Begin with the end in mind.

Stephen Covey

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.

David O. McKay

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

Marianne Williamson

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Carl Sandburg

What ever you are be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

When you can't solve the problem, manage it.

Robert H. Schuller

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas Edison

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

Joe Paterno

No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.

La Rochefoucauld

Success is never ending, failure is never final.

Dr. Robert Schuller

Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By.

Ilsa Laszlo, Casablanca (1942)

A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Chinese Proverb

Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.

Unknown

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 person does not hear.

Thomas Edison

Stop makin noises like a husband.

Vera, Detour (1945)

Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.

Henry David Thoreau

Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.

Anonymous

Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Thomas Dewar

Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.

Steve Winwood

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.

Mother Teresa

Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.

Anonymous

Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.

Will Moss

Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".

Kahlil Gibran

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi

Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.

Christy Borgeld

Love is the whole and more than all.

E.E. Cummings

You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.

Norman Vincent Peale

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it

Theodore Roosevelt

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Orville Wright

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

John Burroughs

Can you dig it ?

Youngblood Priest, Superfly (1972)

As you think in your heart, so shall you be.

Proverb

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?

Jim Rohn

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Anatole France

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Ralph Nader

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.

Henry Drummond

Elementary, my dear Watson.

Sherlock Holmes, The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes (1939)

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Jim Rohn

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.

Charles Barkley

If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.

Unknown

Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable ?

Helen, Hell's Angels (1930)

I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.

Unknown

The book you don't read cant help.

Jim Rohn

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along.

Rumi

If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Mohandas Gandhi, Gandhi (1982)

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

Stephen Covey

To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.

Anonymous

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in

Abraham Lincoln

Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.

Leonard Berry

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'

Sydney Harris

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

Victor Hugo

That dirty, double-crossin' rat !

Bert Harris, Blonde Crazy (1931)

The mark of a true doctor is usually illegible.

Anonymous

Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.

Bill Blackman

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Napoleon Hill

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Robert H. Schuller

A woman who is loved always has success.

Vicki Baum

Kindness is always fashionable.

America E. Barr

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

John Gardner

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

Alfred Whitefield

You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.

Earl Nightingale

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.

Norman Vincent Peale

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Thomas Jefferson

Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.

W. Clement Stone

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

Pierre Abelard

Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Anne Sophie Swetchine