Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
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.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Hi-Yo, Silver !
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
A bold onset is half the battle.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Don’t run away from things that are unpleasant in order to embrace things that are pleasant. Put your hands in the earth. Face the difficulties and grow new happiness.
If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
When you suffer, psychologically, remain with it completely without a single movement of thought. Out of that suffering comes compassion. And that energy is totally different from the mechanistic energy of thought.
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
Shut up and deal.
No involvement, no commitment.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into !
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Georgia, love is for the very young.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Love is a verb.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.