Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
We're sisters under the same mink.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole ! It's in the hole ! It's in the hole !
One man with courage is a majority.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
These go to eleven.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
He who hesitates is lost !
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
We must be the change we wish to see.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
Do or do not, there is no try.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Don't just aspire to make a living. Aspire to make a difference.
And that's how you play "Get the Guests".
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
We are all born for love, it is the principle existence and it's only end.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
I don't know nothin 'bout birthin' babies.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
God doesn't make junk.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
Carpe diem.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
An actor's only job is to enter the lives of people who are different from us and let you feel what that feels like.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
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.
I want to be alone.
Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. So, when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
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.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
You know the difference between you and me ? I make this look good.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.