Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
It is only when we die each day to all that is old that there can be the new.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Changes in life are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too !
Perfect love can not be without equality.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep, the more I give to thee the more I have for both are infinite.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
All-righty then !
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Better late than never.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
You complete me.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
What ever you are be a good one.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
Be who you are in every situation.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Do what you love and the money will follow
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
Where there is love there is life.
Mr. Christian !
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Love is not selfish.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.