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

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

Theodore H. White

From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.

Arthur Ashe

Our love is here to stay.

Ira Gershwin

Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.

Thomas Parnell

If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.

Maya Angelou

Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Unknown

One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.

Wayne Gretzky

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

Dennis Waitley

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.

Willis Whitney

May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift

Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.

Publius Terence

Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.

C.N. Bovee

I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.

Stephen Covey

A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.

Iranian Proverb

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Mark Twain

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

Dennis Waitley

Bring out the gimp.

Zed, Pulp Fiction (1994)

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Napoleon Hill

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Buddha

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

Lorelei, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.

William Butler Yeats

It's showtime !

Joe Gideon, All That Jazz (1979)

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

J.S. Knox

The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.

Unattributed

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Zig Ziglar

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Jacques Barzun

The harder you fall the higher you bounce.

Horace

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Jim Rohn

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.

Robert H. Schuller

Mac, you ever been in love ?

Wyatt Earp, Mac (1946)

I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.

Thomas Edison

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.

Cicero

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.

Richard Cech

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

Norman Vincent Peale

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas Henry Huxley

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

A heart can be broken, but it keeps beating just the same.

Fried Green Tomatoes

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Thomas Jefferson

Make the second effort your second nature.

Harvey Mackay

Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.

Tracy L. McNair

Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.

Marsha Sinetar

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

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Thomas Jefferson

I see dead people.

Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense (1999)

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

Norman Vincent Peale

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a do-it yourself project.

Dennis Waitley

Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.

Michael Johnson

The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.

George Catlin

The life which is unexamined is not worth living

Socrates

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

If you build it, he will come.

Field of Dreams

Success is never ending, failure is never final.

Dr. Robert Schuller

People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Anonymous

The dingo took my baby !

Lindy Chamberlain, A Cry In The Dark (1988)

It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.

John Crowe

For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.

William J. Bennett

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

James Dean

Follow the money.

Deep Throat, All The President's Men (1976)

I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

William Butler Yeats

Love is the whole and more than all.

E.E. Cummings

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

Leon J. Suenes

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis Bacon

In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.

Unattributed

Success is predictable.

Brian Tracy

If there is a will, there is a way.

Unknown

Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.

Swami Vivekananda

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle I find it too confining.

Lily Tomlin

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Albert Einstein

O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Joan Crawford

Indecision is the thief of opportunity.

Jim Rohn

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Albert Einstein

Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !

Taako

Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.

Anonymous

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.

Indira Gandhi

There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.

Napoleon Hill

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

Harvey Mackay

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.

W. R. Inge

What a dump.

Rosa Moline, Beyond The Forest (1949)

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Zig Ziglar

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Benjamin Franklin

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.

Anthony Robbins

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.

Brian Tracy

Love is perfect kindness

Joseph Campbell