Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
It's like, I became such a good person, I almost forgot... I'm a world class liar, baby !
One man with courage is a majority.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Love knows no bounds.
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Love is a fruit in season at all times.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death !
Woody, I know what your problem is. You're just like me. Trash !
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
No involvement, no commitment.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
Let's roll.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Security is a kind of death.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
The best things in life are not things.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
You are what you think you are.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
The best way out is always through.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
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.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
The first duty of love is to listen.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Happiness is a state of mind.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.