Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
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.
Love is a many splendered thing.
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The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons ! The loons ! They're welcoming us back.
An actor's only job is to enter the lives of people who are different from us and let you feel what that feels like.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Come, let us make love deathless.
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Warriors, come out to play !
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
You are what you think you are.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Love is not selfish.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
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.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Whenever I think of the past it just brings back so many memories.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
Hi-Yo, Silver !
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
You talkin to me ?
Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush.
Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.