Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
This is this.
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.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
A boy's best friend is his mother.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Never stop dreaming.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
There are simply too many notes.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore !
The hottest love has the coldest end.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
Ability is sexless.
They say you were shot in the tabloids.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
A simple I love you means more than money.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
I'll remember you, honey. You're the one that got away.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.