Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Shut up and deal.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
"I guess our offense was boring me a little bit" - when asked about dozing off on the sideline.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Live life with passion.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
The show must go on.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
You're so money, and you don't even know it.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Keep the Faith.
I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore !
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
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.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
How many chiropractors does it take to change a light bulb ? Just one, but it requires 21 office visits and 4 X-rays.
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.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
Love is a many splendered thing.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
This is nothing !
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
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.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
Not many people know it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
He who hesitates is lost.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Slow but steady wins the race.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".