Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
One man with courage is a majority.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
Security is a kind of death.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death !
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Anything is possible.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
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The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
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.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
It ain't over till it's over.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Mama says, Stupid is as stupid does.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
It's never too late.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Grow deep - not just tall.
There is time for everything.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
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.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
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