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Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.

We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.

Anonymous

I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Abraham Lincoln

Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in kansas anymore.

Dorothy Gale, The Wizard Of Oz (1939)

Help me ! Help me !

Andre Delambre, The Fly (1958)

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The way we see the problem is the problem.

Stephen Covey

Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".

Jim Rohn

In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it

Mary Norton Gordon

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare

Kind words conquer.

Tamil Proverb

I ain't so tough.

Tom Powers, The Public Enemy (1931)

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.

Joe Klock

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

Came but for friendship, and took away love.

Thomas Moore

Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.

Robert Half

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Brian Tracy

For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Sir Walter Scott

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Carpe diem.

Latin Proverb

The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Douglas Adams

If you build it, he will come.

Shoeless Joe Jackson, Field Of Dreams (1989)

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

Michael Johnson

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.

Swami Vivekananda

Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

Henry Van Dyke

Sooner or later the truth comes to light.

Dutch Proverb

The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Unknown

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Proverb

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Helen Keller

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.

Zen Proverb

You can't express every feeling that you have every moment that you have them.

When Harry Met Sally

What is life without the radiance of love.

Von Schiller

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Jim Rohn

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Ann Landers

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Stephen Covey

Find the good -- and praise it.

Alex Haley

When you shoot a mime, should you use blanks ?

Steven Wright

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

Matthew Arnold

Embrace your inner voice.

John P. Strelecky

Mama says, Stupid is as stupid does.

Young Forrest Gump, Forrest Gump (1994)

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Margaret B. Runbeck

Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.

Anonymous

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

Dalai Lama

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Vincent Van Gogh

We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

General George S. Patton

I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.

Ted Turner

Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.

Karl Jaspers

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.

La Rouchefoucauld

Here's Johnny !

Jack Torrance, The Shining (1980)

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Chinese Proverb

You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Jim Rohn

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Woody Allen

To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.

Anonymous

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Albert Einstein

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward

Grow deep - not just tall.

Karen Kaiser Clark

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

Pat Riley

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.

Mother Teresa

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

Thomas Edison

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Malcolm Gladwell

How many chiropractors does it take to change a light bulb ? Just one, but it requires 21 office visits and 4 X-rays.

Unknown

Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

Horace

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Theodore Roethke

If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse

Unknown

A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.

Islamic Proverb

Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape !

George Taylor, Planet Of The Apes (1968)

Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!

Jim Ryun

Let's go home, Debbie.

Ethan Edwards, The Searchers (1956)

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

Dale E. Turner

You must tolerate that which you can not change.

Spanish Proverb

Shut up and deal.

Fran Kubelik, The Apartment (1960)

Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.

Tracy L. McNair

I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.

Alvy Singer, Annie Hall (1977)

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

Leo Buscaglia

Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.

Marsha Sinetar

No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?

Albert Einstein

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Abraham Lincoln

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'll be taking these huggies and whatever cash you got.

H. I. McDunnough, Raising Arizona (1987)

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

Lucy Larcom

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

Bill Cosby

L-I-V-E ! Live ! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.

Maude, Harold And Maude (1971)

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.

Gorden B. Hinkley

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan