DoolBug Quotes - Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era

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

As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia, said to me once, take your broken heart, make it into art.

Meryl Streep, @Golden Globes

An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

Winston Churchill

If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!

Henriette Montel

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

Lydia Maria Child

Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

F.M. Hubbard

What comes from the heart, touches the heart.

Don Sibet

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

W. Clement Stone

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

Isaac Asimov

I am fond of only what comes from the heart.

Martha Washington

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Napoleon Bonaparte

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.

Booker T. Washington

It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.

Sandra Swinney

You're my Lassie come home.

Joe Carraclough, Lassie Come Home (1943)

From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.

Yiddish Proverb

I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.

Lorelei, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.

Oscar Wilde

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

Anonymous

First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.

Swami Vivekananda

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Houston, we have a problem.

Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 (1944)

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

Love is friendship set to music

E. Joseph Cossman

Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.

Mary Anne Radmacher

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

Anonymous

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?

Henry David Thoreau

The buck stops here.

Harry Truman

If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.

Judith Hayes

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.

Denis Healey

By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.

Swami Vivekananda

The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.

Henry Miller

My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.

Swami Vivekananda

I make wine at home. I make it out of raisins so that it will be aged automatically.

Steven Wright

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard. Now, what's all this crud about no movie tonight ?

Ensign Pulver, Mister Roberts (1955)

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?

Benjamin Franklin

Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.

Stephen Covey

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Oprah Winfrey

Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

Horace

Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.

William Wordsworth

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Anthony Robbins

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Unknown

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.

Henry Ford

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

George Santayana

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

To my big brother George, the richest man in town !

Harry Bailey, It's Wonderful Life (1946)

To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.

Chinese Proverb

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

W. Clement Stone

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.

Harvey Mackay

I know that I will die laughing.

Jeanne Calment

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

Henry David Thoreau

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Thomas J. Watson

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Mark Twain

This is this.

Michael Vronsky, The Deer Hunter (1978)

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

Carl Bard

Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Karl A. Menninger

Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.

C. Archie Danielson

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Made it, Ma! Top of the world!

Arthur 'Cody' Jarrett, White Heat (1949)

The heart that loves is always young.

Greek Proverb

I'm an excellent driver.

Raymond Babbitt, Rain Man (1988)

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

Horace

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

Richard Bach

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

John Davidson Rockefeller

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

George Herbert

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Erich Fromm

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.

Aldous Huxley

Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

John Keats

I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Look at that ! Look how she moves. That's just like Jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motor. I tell you, it's a whole different sex !

Jerry, Some Like It Hot (1959)

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Karl Menninger

The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.

Johnette Napolitano

First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Dolly Parton

I think we deserve a break.

Kathie Moffat, Jeff Bailey (1947)

My biological clock is ticking like this, and the way this case is going, I ain't never getting married !

Mona Lisa Vito, My Cousin Vinny (1992)

If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought

Peace Pilgrim

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.

Napoleon Hill

The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.

Unknown

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

Thomas Campbell

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Goethe

Be the best that you can be.

Unknown