Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
No wire hangers, ever !
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Nobody puts baby in a corner.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Hope springs eternal.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
Ask yourself : 'Do I feel the need to laminate ? ' Then teaching is for you.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
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.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
Stop makin noises like a husband.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
My biological clock is ticking like this, and the way this case is going, I ain't never getting married !
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Roses are red, Violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce ? The cuckoo clock.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
You know, Billy. We blew it.
Count your blessings.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
We'll always have Paris.
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Believe in yourself.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
An actor's only job is to enter the lives of people who are different from us and let you feel what that feels like.
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
Ability is sexless.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
I want the fairy tale.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.