Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Hey, lady !
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
They call it a "Royale with Cheese".
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Snakes ! Why did it have to be snakes ?
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
This is nothing !
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Would you like to play a game ?
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
My life is my message.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Love knows no bounds.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
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.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
One, two, Freddy's coming for you.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Think and grow rich.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
There are never enough I Love You's.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Eddie, you're a born loser.
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.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !
And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.