Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.
How many doctors does it take to screw in a light bulb ? That depends on whether it has medical insurance.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
Press forsake! Go ahead and press 'forsake now' !
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
He who hesitates is lost !
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.
Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all ?
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Must you flirt ?
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Roses are red, Violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
Be the ball.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
We're sisters under the same mink.
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
You're good, you're very good.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.