Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
I'll be taking these huggies and whatever cash you got.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
Good morning, Vietnam !
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle I find it too confining.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
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.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Old love does not rust.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
You sing-a high.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
We didn't land on plymouth rock. Plymouth rock landed on us !
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
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.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or catholics.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into !
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
The illiterate of the century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
No involvement, no commitment.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.