Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight ?
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
I love you. I've loved you since the first moment I saw you. I guess maybe Ive even loved you before I saw you.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
This isn't a dream ! This is really happening !
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give pulse for pulse, breath for breath. Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
I ain't so tough.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Never complain about what you permit.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
May the Force be with you.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Love, two minds without a single thought.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
You betcha !
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Security is a kind of death.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
To err is human. To really screw up, you need a computer.
Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
Changes in life are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Snap out of it !