Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Attitude is everything.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
Hasta la vista, baby. :
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
For with god all things are possible.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Anything is possible.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society -- outside of a kennel.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me ?
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through the snow.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
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.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
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.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Dreams don't work unless you do.
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
We can only learn to love by loving.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.