Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
You know, Billy. We blew it.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
The dingo took my baby !
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
The show must go on.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
This is this.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Love is a hole in the heart.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
Find the good -- and praise it.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Love those who love you.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
Our only security is in our ability to change.
I want the fairy tale.
No man is wise enough by himself.
That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Georgia, love is for the very young.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable ?
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Somebody stop me !
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
Who's on first.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.