Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
Where's the rest of me ?
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Action is the antidote to despair.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Hard work pays off.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
My love for you is a journey, starting at forever, and ending at never.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
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.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Love is a many splendered thing.
I think we deserve a break.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.
Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
She's my sister ! She's my daughter !
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
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.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
Ask yourself : 'Do I feel the need to laminate ? ' Then teaching is for you.
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
I don't like your manners.
Love is not selfish.
Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.