Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are made.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
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.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
I'll have what she's having.
Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid.
Love, two minds without a single thought.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
They can because they think they can.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
You create your reality.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
Security is a kind of death.
God doesn't make junk.
The loving are the daring.
Love is the only rational act.
The past does not equal the future.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
A friend's love says. If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says, you'll never need anything, i'll be there.
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
They call it a "Royale with Cheese".
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
Great men are not always wise.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
You talkin to me ?
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
The time is always right to do what is right.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Fortune favors the brave.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.