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Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.

There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Anonymous

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

Unknown

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

G. M. Trevelyan

Hey, Bud, lets party !

Jeff Spicoli, Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?

Paul Sweeney

An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.

George Catlin

Union gives strength.

Aesop

To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.

Anonymous

The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!

Jim Ryun

If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.

Yogi Berra

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

Anonymous

You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.

Golda Meir

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.

John Dryden

People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.

Robert Half

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.

Anthony Robbins

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.

Sophocles

Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.

Norman Vincent Peale

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward

The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.

Blood Of The Martyr

No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.

Aesop

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcott

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

Thomas Jefferson

When you suffer, psychologically, remain with it completely without a single movement of thought. Out of that suffering comes compassion. And that energy is totally different from the mechanistic energy of thought.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.

Thomas Edison

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

Erich Fromm

Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.

Anonymous

Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.

Chinese Proverb

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.

Dalai Lama

There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.

Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Woody Allen

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

Matthew

Obstacles are great incentives.

Jules Michelet

Who, being loved, is poor ?

Oscar Wilde

Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Plato

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Voltaire

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

H.L. Mencken

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Albert Einstein

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Nick Richardson

If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.

Su Shi

A bold onset is half the battle.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.

Henry David Thoreau

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.

Henry Drummond

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

Jack Canfield

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Samuel Butler

Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.

Unattributed

Count your blessings.

Og Mandino

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

John Heywood

Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Robert G. Ingersoll

We go together, Laurie. I don't know why. Maybe like guns and ammunition go together.

Bart Tare, Gun Crazy (1949)

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

Michael Johnson

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Stephen Covey

Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

Anonymous

One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

Calvin Coolidge

Do first things first, and second things not at all.

Peter F. Drucker

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Michael Jordan

Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ability is sexless.

Christabel Pankhurst

Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.

Anonymous

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

Epictetus

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.

Unknown

It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.

B.C. Forbes

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Thomas Jefferson

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.

Gorden B. Hinkley

Whenever I think of the past it just brings back so many memories.

Steven Wright

Look, Daddy. Teacher says, Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.

Zuzu Bailey, It's Wonderful Life (1946)

A small house will hold a hundred friends.

African Proverb

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.

Azim Premji

He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.

Robert Half

It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Winston Churchill

Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.

William Wordsworth

Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

George Eliot

A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.

Iranian Proverb

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.

Anonymous

Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.

Anonymous

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Confucius