Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
I know you are, but what am I ?
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. If you kick'em all out, you'll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !
Wouldja do me a favor, Harry ? Drop dead !
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Do, or do not. There is no try.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death !
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
But, in the opinion of the court, you are not only sane but you're the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Gobble gobble, gobble gobble. We accept her. One of us, one of us.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
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.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
They can because they think they can.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Living, love and death are one thing, not divisive, not separated, not divorced, not in the field of time but it is completely a living, moving thing, indivisible. And that is immortal.
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through the snow.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
Here's looking at you, kid.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
If you build it, he will come.
My heart is ever at your service.
Well, it's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
To know me is to love me.
I have loved to the point of madness, that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.