Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
L-I-V-E ! Live ! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By.
Nothing succeeds like success.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
This is nothing !
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Many hands make light work.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
What do you feel like doing tonight ?
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Believe in yourself.
Never, never, never give up.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Love is friendship set to music
I'm an excellent driver.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce ? The cuckoo clock.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one’s life.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Never stop dreaming.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Act or accept.
A bold onset is half the battle.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
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.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
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.
I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
You're tearing me apart !
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
The sun will come up tomorrow