Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
The best way out is always through.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
It's amazing, Molly. The love inside, you take it with you.
Seize the day.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
Who's on first.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
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 past does not equal the future.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Never complain about what you permit.
Funny like I'm a clown ? I amuse you ?
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
Go after what you want in life, with all the blessings of all the people who care about you. And find out what making your wishes come true really feels like.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Press forsake! Go ahead and press 'forsake now' !
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Chance is the fool's name for fate.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Truth fears no questions.