Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Ask yourself : 'Do I feel the need to laminate ? ' Then teaching is for you.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
My love for you is a journey, starting at forever, and ending at never.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
Those who laugh - last!!
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.
For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.
What is life without the radiance of love.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
My heart shall be thy garden.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
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.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole ! It's in the hole ! It's in the hole !
Fortune favors the brave.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Love is friendship set on fire.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
But I would be proud.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Talkers are no good doers.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Nobody puts baby in a corner.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
Love is a moment that lasts forever.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Hard work pays off.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
You had me at hello.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
You are what you think you are.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.