Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Love is not selfish.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Don’t run away from things that are unpleasant in order to embrace things that are pleasant. Put your hands in the earth. Face the difficulties and grow new happiness.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
I don't like your manners.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Slow but steady wins the race.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Love conquers all.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Bitterness imprisons life, love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life, love empowers it. Bitterness sours life, love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life, love heals it. Bitterness blinds life, love anoints it's eyes.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Do you think that there is a word that contains all of the vowels? Unquestionably.
When you suffer, psychologically, remain with it completely without a single movement of thought. Out of that suffering comes compassion. And that energy is totally different from the mechanistic energy of thought.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it's coming with all my heart.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
But, in the opinion of the court, you are not only sane but you're the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
It's never too late.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Pay your taxes, mind your business and keep Will Smith’s wife’s name out of your (bleeping) mouth.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
We will either find a way or make one.
Hi, Curly, kill anyone today ?
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Snap out of it !
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Sometimes you gotta say, What the fuck.
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.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
That love is all there is is all we know of love.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.