Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
We go together, Laurie. I don't know why. Maybe like guns and ammunition go together.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
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.
Love is friendship set on fire.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
There is no education like adversity.
Live life to the fullest.
My love for you is a journey, starting at forever, and ending at never.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
The road to success is always under construction.
Embrace your inner voice.
The first duty of love is to listen.
Attitude determines altitude.
Love is a hole in the heart.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
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.
Live with passion !
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
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.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
You know, Billy. We blew it.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
My life is my message.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Snap out of it !
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.