Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Only the educated are free.
Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Must you flirt ?
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
You're my Lassie come home.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
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.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
You know, Billy. We blew it.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
When we place blame, we give away our power.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable ?
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun, a swiss watch and a woman from anywhere.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
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.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
We're sisters under the same mink.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
There is no substitute for hard work.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Without a general an army is lost.
Make the second effort your second nature.
I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me ?
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
You always succeed in producing a result.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.