Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
My mission was to take the invisible, the unloved and make them the heroes.
Who's on first.
The time is always right to do what is right.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Be all you can be.
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
If there is a will, there is a way.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
From now on you will never be alone, even when we are separated, and even when death itself parts us, I shall remain with you.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
As if !
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
The beginning is the half of every action.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Look, Daddy. Teacher says, Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
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.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
You're good, you're very good.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
Live with passion.
Love the giver more than the gift.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
You know, Billy. We blew it.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.