Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Watch the skies, everywhere, keep looking ! Keep watching the skies !
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
His eyes have made love to me all evening.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Always do the right thing.
I am not a toy. I am a spork !
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
He who stops being better stops being good.
Love like there is no tomorrow.
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
A woman who is loved always has success.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Hope springs eternal.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
I'm king of the world !
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable ?
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
What's meant to be will always find a way
You are what you think you are.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.