Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Think and grow rich.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain !
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
God doesn't make junk.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
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.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
My love for you is a journey, starting at forever, and ending at never.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
The truth is more important than the facts.
Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you ?
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are made.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
Forget about it.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Love is like the wild rose-briar. Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly ?
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Love is a moment that lasts forever.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
You make me want to be a better man. As good as it gets.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Love is the only rational act.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
You are what you think about all day long.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Bond. James Bond.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
I ain't so tough.
Never complain about what you permit.
Shut up and deal.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Snakes ! Why did it have to be snakes ?
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
Faith can move mountains.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel.
Non !
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Must you flirt ?