Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
We can only learn to love by loving.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
What's another word for thesaurus ?
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
You complete me.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
You only get out what you put in.
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Love is the only rational act.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
One million dollars !
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce ? The cuckoo clock.
Slow but steady wins the race.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
You become what you think about.
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.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
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.
Think and grow rich.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
They call it a "Royale with Cheese".
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
Attitude is everything.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Faith can move mountains.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Stand-up comedy is a brutal business. And thanks to Netflix, people get overpaid for it.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
The doctor should be opaque to his patients, and like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Only the educated are free.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
There are never enough I Love You's.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Old love does not rust.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
For one person to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the last test and proof, the work for which all else is but preparation.