Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
God doesn't make junk.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable ?
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
Experience is the best teacher.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Laughter is the best medicine.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
I know that I will die laughing.
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
Follow the money.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
You talkin to me ?
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.