Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
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.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia. To mistake an ordinary young man for a greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
Look, Daddy. Teacher says, Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Here's Johnny !
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Have you checked the children lately ?
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
This is the people's war ! It is our war ! We are the fighters ! Fight it, then ! Fight it with all that is in us, and may god defend the right.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
Hard work pays off.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
Security is a kind of death.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Love is the whole and more than all.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
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.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into !
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Embrace your inner voice.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
They're called boobs, Ed.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.
Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in kansas anymore.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.