Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death !
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
What do you feel like doing tonight ?
Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Open the pod bay doors,
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
That love is all there is is all we know of love.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Truth fears no questions.
A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
You're tearing me apart !
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
Obstacles are great incentives.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
If you didn't know me, would you think I was a stranger ?
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
You always succeed in producing a result.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
No wire hangers, ever !
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
I'll remember you, honey. You're the one that got away.
Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.
Adventure is worthwhile.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Where there is love there is life.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Things do not change we change.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
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.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.