Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
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.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
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.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
It's showtime !
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
It's good to be the king !
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
I'll be back.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Love those who love you.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
My biological clock is ticking like this, and the way this case is going, I ain't never getting married !
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Love as much as you can from wherever you are.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Stella ! Hey, Stella !
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
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.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Love is a hole in the heart.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
Pay your taxes, mind your business and keep Will Smith’s wife’s name out of your (bleeping) mouth.
I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me ?
Those who laugh - last!!
Only the healing art enables one to make a name for himself and at the same time give benefit to others.