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

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Wayne Gretzky

If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Zig Ziglar

How many chiropractors does it take to change a light bulb ? Just one, but it requires 21 office visits and 4 X-rays.

Unknown

If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.

Thomas Edison

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Erich Fromm

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

John Davidson Rockefeller

Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.

Mike Conovan, Pat And Mike (1952)

Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.

Henry Ford

The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.

J. Richard Clarke

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Effie Jones

You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

Paul Sweeney

To err is human. To really screw up, you need a computer.

Paul R. Ehrlich

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

Victor Cousins

It is love that makes the impossible possible.

Indian Proverb

For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

Francis Bacon

Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

Anonymous

Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.

Sholem Aleichem

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.

Congolese Proverb

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.

Machiavelli

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

In the space age the most important space is between the ears.

Anne Armstrong

Do you think that there is a word that contains all of the vowels? Unquestionably.

Unknown

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

Burton Hills

Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.

John Armstrong

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

D.H. Lawrence

People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.

Pete Zafra

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Jim Rohn

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.

Zig Ziglar

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.

Unknown

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Winston Churchill

How can you tell the difference between a run-over snake and a run-over lawyer? There are skid marks in front of the snake.

Unknown

Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.

Stephen Covey

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement

W. Clement Stone

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Seek first to understand, then be understood

Stephen Covey

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David Riklan

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Thomas Jefferson

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.

Unknown

When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Douglas MacArthur

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Helen Keller

Above all to thine own self be true.

William Shakespeare

We didn't land on plymouth rock. Plymouth rock landed on us !

Malcolm X, Malcolm X (1992)

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Lucretius

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Napoleon Hill

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

Mark Victor Hansen

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Richard Wagner

I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?

Maria, For Whom The Bell Tolls (1943)

There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.

Danish Proverb

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Albert Schweitzer

Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.

Virgil

I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.

Martha Washington

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

Lou Holtz

The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.

Clint Smith

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

Dennis Waitley

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

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Lord Byron

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Norman Vincent Peale

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

Michael Johnson

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

John Lennon Mignon McLaughlin

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

High expectations are the key to everything.

Sam Walton

Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.

Henry Ford

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Benjamin Franklin

Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?

Anonymous

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.

Carlo Brumat

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

Leon J. Suenes

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Unknown

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Anonymous

There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.

Abraham Maslow

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You can observe a lot just by watching.

Yogi Berra

People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.

Milan Kundera

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Thomas Jefferson

Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid.

Hal (V.O.), 2001: A Space Odyssey (2001)

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Oscar Wilde

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

John Muir

Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

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

Chinese Proverb

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

Zig Ziglar

Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?

Virginia Hill, Bugsy (1991)

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up

James Baldwin

Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe