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

if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.

Rollo May

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

Albert Ellis

The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.

W. Beran Wolfe

All-righty then !

Ace Ventura, Ace Ventura (1994)

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

James F. Bymes

People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.

George Matthew Allen

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction

Anne Sullivan

Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''

Robert H. Schuller

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Sydney Harris

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

David Wilkerson

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William A. Ward

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.

Margaret Thatcher

Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !

Cloakroom Girl, Maudie Triplett (1932)

Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

Chinese Proverb

People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Anonymous

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Orlando Battista

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

Dennis Waitley

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

Dennis Waitley

You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.

Harold Hill

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.

Karen Casey

I think therefore I am

Rene Descartes

In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.

Anonymous

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.

Thomas Edison

Don't water your weeds.

Harvey Mackay

A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face.

The Blue Fairy, Pinocchio (1940)

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Michael Corleone, The Godfather (1974)

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.

Isaac B. Singer

The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.

Barbara Jordan

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

Stacie Cunningham

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

Albert Einstein

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Colin Powell

Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

John Dryden

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Stephen Covey

Dreams don't work unless you do.

John C. Maxwell

Ideas without action are worthless.

Harvey Mackay

All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.

Harvey Mackay

Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.

George Herbert

Laughter is the best medicine.

Unknown

All love is sweet, given or returned.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.

Robert M. Pirsig

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Corneille

Winners never quit and quitters never win !

Vince Lombardi

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'

Brian Tracy

I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.

Madge Norwood, Cabin In the Cotton (1932)

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.

Anonymous

Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !

Mars Blackmon, She's Gotta Have It (1986)

Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

W. Clement Stone

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

These go to eleven.

Nigel Tufnel, This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.

Anonymous

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

Julie Andrews

You are what you think about all day long.

Robert Schuller

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

Martha Washington

It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.

Latin Proverb

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Robert G. Ingersoll

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Mark Twain

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Elbert Hubbard

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

T. Howell

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill

Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.

Thomas Edison

Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.

Unknown

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!

Dorothy Gale, The Wizard Of Oz (1939)

There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.

Douglas MacArthur

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.

Tyler Durden, Fight Club (1999)

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

Levi ben Gershon

I have loved to the point of madness, that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.

Francoise Sagan

If a man does his best, what else is there ?

General George S. Patton

Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Plato

I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Humphrey Bogart

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.

General Douglas MacArthur

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Zig Ziglar

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

William Bridges

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Helen Keller

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Samuel Johnson

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Gail Sheehy

Slow but steady wins the race.

Unknown

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

You haven't failed until you quit trying.

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