Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in kansas anymore.
We belong dead.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
A woman who is loved always has success.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.
Would you like to play a game ?
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
No matter where you go, there you are.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
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.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !
How do I look ?
Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
You are what you think about all day long.
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
Follow the money.
I saw and loved.
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
All-righty then !
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
They can because they think they can.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Success is never wondering what if.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Keep the Faith.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
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.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
I know you are, but what am I ?
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.