Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Never say die.
May the Force be with you.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
Bond. James Bond.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
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.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face.
You talkin to me ?
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Would you like to come in ?
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
My friends are my estate.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
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.
Success is the child of audacity.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
I light my candle from their torches.
A friend's love says. If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says, you'll never need anything, i'll be there.
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.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Can you dig it ?
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
They call it a "Royale with Cheese".
Honesty is the best image.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.