Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
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.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
The first duty of love is to listen.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
We must be the change we wish to see.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
You betcha !
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Stella ! Hey, Stella !
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole ! It's in the hole ! It's in the hole !
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
You become what you think about.
How can you tell the difference between a run-over snake and a run-over lawyer? There are skid marks in front of the snake.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
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.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
I am not a toy. I am a spork !
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.