Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Ideas... they have the power
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
Love knows no bounds.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
Love is a moment that lasts forever.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Go ahead, make my day.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf ? Didn't you hear 'em ? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding.
If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
You've got to ask yourself one question : Do I feel lucky ? Well, do ya, punk ?
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Don't water your weeds.
One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Open the pod bay doors,
Do you want a leg or a breast ?
Show me the money !
You're good, but you're going to be great.
I have loved to the point of madness, that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
What ever you are be a good one.
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.
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
You always succeed in producing a result.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Above all to thine own self be true.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
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.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Yo, Adrian !
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
There's no place like home.