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Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Abraham Maslow

Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway.

Oberst Von Scherbach, Stalag 17 (1954)

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.

Seneca

I am your number one fan.

Annie Wilkes, Misery (1990)

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Theodore Roosevelt

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?

Henry David Thoreau

Love like you'll never be hurt.

William Purkey

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Elbert Hubbard

There are never enough I Love You's.

Lenny Bruce

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.

John P. Strelecky

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Tony Dorsett

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

H. Jackson Brown

Get busy living or get busy dying.

Stephen King

Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.

William Cowper

Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!

Julian Marsh, 42nd Street (1933)

If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought

Peace Pilgrim

Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?

Mark Twain

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.

Aldous Huxley

Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

Zig Ziglar

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Anthony Robbins

Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.

Marian Wright Edelman

Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.

Stacie Cunningham

Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.

John S. Hinds

Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.

Unknown

By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.

Swami Vivekananda

He that would be a leader must be a bridge.

Welsh Proverb

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Helen Keller

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Anthony Robbins

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Jim Rohn

Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.

William Curry

If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

Winston Churchill

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.

Anonymous

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

Levi ben Gershon

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.

Charles Dickens

First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Napoleon Hill

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Success is a journey not a destination.

Ben Sweetland

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Stephen Covey

Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

George Eliot

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

Thomas Edison

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

They call me Mister Tibbs !

Virgil Tibbs, In The Heat Of The Night (1967)

Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Dale Carnegie

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

Lou Holtz

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

Action is the antidote to despair.

Joan Baez

Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.

Harvey Mackay

Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.

Muda Saint Michael

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Proverb

Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Richard Wagner

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

Anonymous

He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.

Unattributed

Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?

Martin Luther King Jr.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Proverb

How do I look ?

Holly Golightly, Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961)

I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.

Robert H. Schuller

There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.

David Mahoney

Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.

Martha Washington

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Henry Ford

If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.

Swami Vivekananda

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Napoleon Hill

Live life to the fullest.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.

Swami Vivekananda

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

The list is an absolute good. The list is life.

Itzak Stern, Schindler's List (1993)

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

Vegas, baby.

Trent, Swingers (1996)

The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".

Winston Churchill

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

Swami Vivekananda

Hunker down.

Unknown

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it

Colin Wilson

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Margaret Thatcher

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Buckminster Fuller

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Anonymous

Live life with passion.

Unknown

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Tom Peters

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!

Jim Ryun

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

Horace

The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.

Albert Ellis

No pain, No gain.

Unknown

Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.

Swami Vivekananda

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcott

If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.

Marie Osmond

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Thomas Jefferson