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Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.

We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.

Anonymous

I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

Crash Davis, Bull Durham (1988)

God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.

Swami Vivekananda

You sing-a high.

Baravelli, Connie Bailey (1932)

Face it girls, I'm older and I have more insurance.

Evelyn Couch, Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

Security is a kind of death.

Tennessee Williams

Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.

Stephen Covey

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

Zig Ziglar

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

Martha Washington

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Josh Billings

If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.

Justin Sims

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

Unattributed

if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.

Anonymous

Love is a fruit in season at all times.

Mother Theresa

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.

Swami Vivekananda

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Jim Rohn

You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.

Earl Nightingale

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.

Natalie Cole

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

Rumi

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.

Oscar Wilde

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?

Marian Wright Edelman

There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

Oprah Winfrey

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.

Ron Wild

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

Mark Victor Hansen

Love never claims, it ever gives.

Mahatma Gandhi

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.

Oprah Winfrey

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

Samuel Johnson

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

Donald Trump

Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.

Anonymous

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.

Robert F. Kennedy

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Warren Buffett

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Anthony Robbins

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

Thomas Szasz

Don't fear, just live right.

Neal A. Maxwell

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?

Abraham Lincoln

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.

Indira Gandhi

Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.

Emily Bronte

Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.

Michael Johnson

The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.

Leo Rosten

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.

Leo Buscaglia

Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.

Henry David Thoreau

Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.

Confucius

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Jesus

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Lord Byron

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Douglas Adams

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

Walter Winchell

If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man

Aretha Franklin

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

Carl Bard

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Stephen Covey

Begin with the end in mind.

Stephen Covey

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

Unknown

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Jim Rohn

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.

Winston Churchill

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

Dennis Waitley

He who has hope has everything.

Arabian Proverb

The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.

Rodney L. Parsley

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Norman Vincent Peale

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Earl Nightingale

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.

Narrator, The Naked City (1948)

You make me want to be a better man. As good as it gets.

James Baldwin

You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss.

Daniel Heinsius

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Henry Ward Beecher

Chance is the fool's name for fate.

Guy Holden, The Gay Divorcee (1934)

Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Charles Caleb Colton

You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.

Michael Johnson

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Jim Rohn

What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.

Swami Vivekananda

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

George S. Patton

We belong dead.

The Monster, Bride Of Frankenstein (1935)

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough Reason

Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.

Anonymous

Love those who love you.

Voltaire

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Bernard M. Baruch

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Dennis Waitley

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

Jim Rohn