Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
These go to eleven.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
I'm going to take a bath.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Let's roll.
I can't believe it. Right here where we live -- right here in St. Louis.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
Be all you can be.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
I don't give a shit.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
You're tearing me apart !
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
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.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Pay your taxes, mind your business and keep Will Smith’s wife’s name out of your (bleeping) mouth.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
You make me want to be a better man.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. If you kick'em all out, you'll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.
It's good to be the king !
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
I'm Multi-Dimensional !
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Never say more than is necessary.