Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Inner silence promotes clarity of mind. It makes us value the inner world, it trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
Never Quit.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Love is the only rational act.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Whatever you are be a good one.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.
Houston, we have a problem.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Gort ! Klaatu barada nikto !
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
I want the fairy tale.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Press forsake! Go ahead and press 'forsake now' !
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Our love is here to stay.
I don't know nothin 'bout birthin' babies.
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.
We're sisters under the same mink.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
You had me at hello.
Oh, it was nobody's fault but my own. I was looking up. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You were there.
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
If they move, kill ' em.
Yes, it used to be beautiful -- what with the rackets, whoring, guns.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Real love stories never have endings.