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

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart

To err is human. To really screw up, you need a computer.

Paul R. Ehrlich

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

Hugh Prather

Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.

Anonymous

The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.

Madame De Maintenon

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

Thomas Edison

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.

Swami Vivekananda

A healthy outside starts from the inside

Robert Urich

First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

Anthony Robbins

The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.

J. Richard Clarke

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Seneca

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David Riklan

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Thomas Jefferson

I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Must you flirt ?

Ninotchka, Leon (1939)

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Seneca

A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.

Confucius

if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.

Rollo May

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".

Winston Churchill

Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.

C.N. Bovee

You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

William S. Burroughs

What is life without the radiance of love.

Von Schiller

I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

William Butler Yeats

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

Alphonse Marie De Lamartine

Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.

Daniel Monroe Tuttle

To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard

Tristan Bernard

To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.

Thomas Edison

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

Caroline L. Gascoigne

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Jim Rohn

The past does not equal the future.

Anthony Robbins

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.

Unknown

Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.

Bill Jensen

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Maya Angelou

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

Janet Erskine Stuart

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

Abigail Van Buren

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Seneca

I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

Crash Davis, Bull Durham (1988)

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

Dennis Waitley

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.

Zadok Rabinwitz

You are today where your thoughts have brought

James Allen

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Buddha

There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.

Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

Look, Daddy. Teacher says, Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.

Zuzu Bailey, It's Wonderful Life (1946)

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Norman Vincent Peale

It's always too soon to quit !

Norman Vincent Peale

One lie ruins a thousand truths.

Ghanaian Proverb

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Benjamin Franklin

Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

Lou Gehrig, The Pride Of The Yankees (1942)

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Albert Einstein

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Theodore Roethke

We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Jim Rohn

Don't hide your light under a bushel.

Bible

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Portuguese Proverb

Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.

Henry David Thoreau

In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it

Mary Norton Gordon

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

Albert Schweitzer

If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.

Montaigne

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Abraham Lincoln

Find the good -- and praise it.

Alex Haley

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.

Anonymous

All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.

Harvey Mackay

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Richard Wagner

The best proof of love is trust.

Joyce Brothers

Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.

Braveheart

The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!

Jim Ryun

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

Thomas Edison

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

Albert Einstein

I love a good fight.

Marcus Wareing

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Napoleon Hill

Nothing succeeds like success.

Proverb

Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.

Vince Lombardi

Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.

Marva Collins

A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

Anonymous

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus

Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.

W. Clement Stone

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.

Norman Vincent Peale

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

From now on you will never be alone, even when we are separated, and even when death itself parts us, I shall remain with you.

Ladislaus Boros

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Anthony Robbins

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Dennis Waitley

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

William Glasser

There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.

Zig Ziglar