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Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

Stephen Covey

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Jim Rohn

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

St. Francis

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Anthony Robbins

Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.

Butch Cassidy, Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969)

Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.

Forky, Toy Story 4 (2019)

How do you live ?

Helen, James Allen (1932)

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.

Helen Keller

I have a head for business and a bod for sin.

Tess McGill, Working Girl (1988)

Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

Henry Van Dyke

The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

Napoleon Hill

Practice makes perfect.

Unknown

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Darrell Royal

Yo, Adrian !

Rocky Balboa, Rocky (1976)

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Margaret Mead

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

Thomas Edison

Attica ! Attica !

Sonny Wortzik, Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.

Janet Erskine Stuart

Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.

Robert H. Schuller

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fiddle-dee-dee.

Scarlett O'Hara, Gone With The Wind (1939)

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Charles F. Kettering

If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.

Bernard Haldane

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Samuel Butler

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

Shira Tehrani

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

Anthony Robbins

It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them and a lifetime to forget them.

Anonymous

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.

Norman Vincent Peale

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Thornton Wilder

You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

Maya Angelou

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Anthony Robbins

The search for someone to blame is always successful.

Robert Half

Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.

William Cowper

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

George S. Patton

The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.

Anthony Robbins

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

Anonymous

In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

The ready back gets all the loads.

Latvian Proverbs

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Colette

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.

Deborah Whipp

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

Thornton Wilder

People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats

Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.

Mark Twain

There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'

Carrie Fisher

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

Changes in life are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

Gail Sheehy

We didn't land on plymouth rock. Plymouth rock landed on us !

Malcolm X, Malcolm X (1992)

The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.

W. Beran Wolfe

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Veronica Quaife, The Fly (1986)

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.

Seneca

Eddie, you're a born loser.

Bert Gordon, The Hustler (1961)

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert A. Heinlein

Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.

Unknown

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

William J.H

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

J. Petit Senn

To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Sugar Ray Robinson

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

Dan Stanford

Above all to thine own self be true.

William Shakespeare

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Martin Luther King Jr.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

John Davidson Rockefeller

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

Burton Hills

By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Love is something eternal.

Vincent Van Gogh

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Anonymous

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

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.

Karl Jaspers

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

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.

Dennis Waitley

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Abraham Lincoln

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

Stephen Covey

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Napoleon Hill

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Anthony Robbins

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.

Carlo Brumat

All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.

Ashleigh Brilliant

It's good to be the king !

Louis XVI, History Of The World (1981)

Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.

Peter Davies

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!

Anthony Robbins

Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

Robert Half