Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Nothing succeeds like success.
To know me is to love me.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Hard work pays off.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !
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.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
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.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Mama says, Stupid is as stupid does.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
The first duty of love is to listen.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Love knows no bounds.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Love is a hole in the heart.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
For with god all things are possible.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.