Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
Love is friendship set on fire.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
How many doctors does it take to screw in a light bulb ? That depends on whether it has medical insurance.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Love those who love you.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Success is the child of audacity.
I'll remember you, honey. You're the one that got away.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
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.
Love that is true never grows old.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
What a dump.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
There are never enough I Love You's.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
You make me want to be a better man.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
The best way out is always through.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
My mission was to take the invisible, the unloved and make them the heroes.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.