Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Begin with the end in mind.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
Living, love and death are one thing, not divisive, not separated, not divorced, not in the field of time but it is completely a living, moving thing, indivisible. And that is immortal.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
You're so money, and you don't even know it.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Reach for the stars.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
I want the fairy tale.
What do you feel like doing tonight ?
Mr. Allen, this may come as a shock to you, but there are some men who don't end every sentence with a proposition.
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Roses are red, Violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Let thy words be few.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
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.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
Be the ball.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Our only security is in our ability to change.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.