Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
An actor's only job is to enter the lives of people who are different from us and let you feel what that feels like.
I'm an excellent driver.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
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.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
Is it just me or is the grim reaper a straight-up hottie ?
Money without brains is always dangerous.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Keep the Faith.
Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Tonight's weather forecast - dark, with continued darkness until morning.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
Love is friendship set on fire.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
I'm Multi-Dimensional !
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
He who stops being better stops being good.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
When you shoot a mime, should you use blanks ?
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
One man with courage is a majority.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
You only get out what you put in.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.