Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
Love is a verb.
My love for you is a journey, starting at forever, and ending at never.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
What hump ?
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.
I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
They alone live, who live for others.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Love knows no bounds.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
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.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain !
Above all to thine own self be true.
I see dead people.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
You know, Billy. We blew it.
One million dollars !
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Ideas without action are worthless.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
I make wine at home. I make it out of raisins so that it will be aged automatically.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
Live life with passion.