Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into !
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Adventure is worthwhile.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
This too, shall pass.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
You aren't too bright. I like that in a man.
My biological clock is ticking like this, and the way this case is going, I ain't never getting married !
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
Kindness is always fashionable.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Get away from her, you bitch !
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.
Well, it's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Keep the Faith.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
I cannot stand little notes on my pillow ! We are all out of cornflakes,
It's like, I became such a good person, I almost forgot... I'm a world class liar, baby !
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against ?
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
I am your number one fan.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
You've got to ask yourself one question : Do I feel lucky ? Well, do ya, punk ?
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Fill your hands, you son-of-a-bitch !
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
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.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
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.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Don't fear, just live right.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.