Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
You sing-a high.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
If you build it, he will come.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Old love does not rust.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Be Here Now.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
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.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
You aren't too bright. I like that in a man.
Mr. Christian !
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Love is the river of life in the world.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Inner silence promotes clarity of mind. It makes us value the inner world, it trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Rosebud.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Letting go of our suffering is the hardest thing we will ever do.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
How do you live ?
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
After your jump, the net appears.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
You only get out what you put in.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
What is life without the radiance of love.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
High expectations are the key to everything.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
Think of me as a sex symbol for men who don't give a damn.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
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.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Sanctuary !
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Stop makin noises like a husband.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.