Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Embrace your inner voice.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
Georgia, love is for the very young.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
And that's how you play "Get the Guests".
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia. To mistake an ordinary young man for a greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Vegas, baby.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Houston, we have a problem.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
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.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
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.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Adventure is worthwhile.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Look, Daddy. Teacher says, Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.
Title of newspaper article yesterday - Vandals made off with all toilet seats in the local precinct. Police have nothing to go on.
Love is friendship set on fire.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Love is perfect kindness
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
Happiness is a state of activity.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf ? Didn't you hear 'em ? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.