Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Cross your bridges.
I think therefore I am
Remove failure as an option.
Whatever it takes !
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce ? The cuckoo clock.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
She's my sister ! She's my daughter !
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Love is not selfish.
The best way out is always through.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Stop makin noises like a husband.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
I see dead people.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Love the giver more than the gift.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Love is a many splendered thing.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !
The successful man is the average man, focused.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
We’re alive! We can make a difference! We can turn this ship in the way we wanna go, man! Towards love, creating a healthy planet for all of us.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
They are able because they think they are able.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
You had me at hello.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
They're called boobs, Ed.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
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.
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.
You can observe a lot just by watching.