Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Love is a great beautifier.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Dreams don't work unless you do.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
It's showtime !
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Happy wife, happy life.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
The best things in life are free.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
The loving are the daring.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
You become what you think about.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Help me ! Help me !
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
There is no education like adversity.
My friends are my estate.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
This is the people's war ! It is our war ! We are the fighters ! Fight it, then ! Fight it with all that is in us, and may god defend the right.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Who's on first.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
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.
Oh, it was nobody's fault but my own. I was looking up. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You were there.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Bring out the gimp.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
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.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.