Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
If you build it, he will come.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
You're my Lassie come home.
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
Happiness is a choice.
Love may make the world go around, but it's laughter that keeps us from getting dizzy.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
The show must go on.
Excuse me while I whip this out.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Never Quit.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
There is time for everything.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Love conquers all.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight ?
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
That love is all there is is all we know of love.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Never complain about what you permit.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
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.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
You're good, you're very good.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Face it girls, I'm older and I have more insurance.
They're called boobs, Ed.