Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
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.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
You only get out what you put in.
I think we deserve a break.
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Slow but steady wins the race.
You complete me.
Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Look at that ! Look how she moves. That's just like Jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motor. I tell you, it's a whole different sex !
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Would you like to play a game ?
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
You complete me.
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all ?
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Shane ! Shane ! Come back !
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Attitude determines altitude.
Don't water your weeds.
Love is something eternal.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Actions speak louder than words.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.