Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
No involvement, no commitment.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Hey, lady !
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun, a swiss watch and a woman from anywhere.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
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.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
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.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Don't fear, just live right.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
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.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
No one became poor by giving alms.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
A bold onset is half the battle.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
That love is all there is is all we know of love.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
I don't give a shit.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Love understands all languages.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Ability is sexless.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Do it now !
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Hard work pays off.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.