Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
We all go a little mad sometimes.
Mama says, Stupid is as stupid does.
I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
What is it you want, Mary ? What do you want ? You want the moon ? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
To err is human. To really screw up, you need a computer.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
Action is the antidote to despair.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Seize the day.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up ! You're right on track.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
Stand-up comedy is a brutal business. And thanks to Netflix, people get overpaid for it.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
If you build it, he will come.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Follow your dreams.
Forget about it.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Go after what you want in life, with all the blessings of all the people who care about you. And find out what making your wishes come true really feels like.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
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.
All-righty then !
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
No man is wise enough by himself.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Dreams don't work unless you do.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Experience is the best teacher.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Title of newspaper article yesterday - Vandals made off with all toilet seats in the local precinct. Police have nothing to go on.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Woody, I know what your problem is. You're just like me. Trash !
Mr. Christian !
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
I saw and loved.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Never Quit.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
And that's how you play "Get the Guests".
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.