Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Okay, but I get to be on top.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
The best way out is always through.
I want to be alone.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Success is the child of audacity.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one’s life.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Snap out of it !
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Truth fears no questions.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
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.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
You know, maybe I was wrong and luck is like love. You have to go all the way to find it.
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
I light my candle from their torches.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
The dedicated doctor knows that he must be both scientist and humanitarian, his most agonizing decisions lie in the field of human relations.
I may not be perfect, but some parts of me are excellent.
Love is a moment that lasts forever.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape !
Attica ! Attica !
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
They say you were shot in the tabloids.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
I ain't so tough.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !
I am big ! It's the pictures that got small.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
A heart can be broken, but it keeps beating just the same.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Dreams don't work unless you do.
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.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society -- outside of a kennel.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.