Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
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.
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Love is not selfish.
Love is the only rational act.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Come out, come out, wherever you are !
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.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
Remove failure as an option.
Wouldja do me a favor, Harry ? Drop dead !
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or catholics.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
We're sisters under the same mink.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Great men are not always wise.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
The show must go on.
Live with passion.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Never stop dreaming.
Success is a journey not a destination.
Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
It is only when we die each day to all that is old that there can be the new.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Don't dream it be it.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Love is like the wild rose-briar. Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly ?
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
To err is human. To really screw up, you need a computer.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here ! This is the war room !
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.