Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
Well done is better than well said.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Nobody puts baby in a corner.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.
This is the beginning of a new day.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
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.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Act or accept.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
I'll remember you, honey. You're the one that got away.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Strike while the iron is hot.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Do, or do not. There is no try.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
You know, Billy. We blew it.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
Gort ! Klaatu barada nikto !
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
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.