Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Count your blessings.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
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.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Love the giver more than the gift.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
Do you want a leg or a breast ?
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Love is a great beautifier.
Mr. Christian !
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
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.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
I'll be back.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
The good physician treats the disease, the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
Mac, you ever been in love ?