Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Do, or do not. There is no try.
Never stop dreaming.
Be all you can be.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Love like there is no tomorrow.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
It's showtime !
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Would you like to come in ?
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
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.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
After all, tomorrow is another day !
I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Work is love made manifest.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Love is friendship set to music
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
They say you were shot in the tabloids.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.