Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
There is no education like adversity.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Whenever I think of the past it just brings back so many memories.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Excuse me while I whip this out.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
We belong dead.
One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Love, two minds without a single thought.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Love is a moment that lasts forever.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
A simple I love you means more than money.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
I see dead people.
Life is what you make it.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
I am not a toy. I am a spork !
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
A woman who is loved always has success.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
It's hard to believe that you haven't had sex for two hundred years.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
I don't know nothin 'bout birthin' babies.
Never Quit.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
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.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Don’t run away from things that are unpleasant in order to embrace things that are pleasant. Put your hands in the earth. Face the difficulties and grow new happiness.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.