Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
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 !
Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
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.
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Love is a fruit in season at all times.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Experience is the best teacher.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Face it girls, I'm older and I have more insurance.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
To know me is to love me.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
I'm king of the world !
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Strike while the iron is hot.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
I ain't so tough.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
This isn't a dream ! This is really happening !
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Never stop dreaming.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Okay, but I get to be on top.
I see dead people.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.