Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
The illiterate of the century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
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.
Bring out the gimp.
What a dump.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
What do they think I am, dumb or something ? Why, I make more money than Calvin Coolidge ! Put together !
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
There are never enough I Love You's.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
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.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
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.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
I am not a toy. I am a spork !
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Georgia, love is for the very young.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.
They say you were shot in the tabloids.
They may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom !
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
You are what you think you are.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Say hello to my little friend !
Real love stories never have endings.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
How do you live ?
Hi, Curly, kill anyone today ?
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce ? The cuckoo clock.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Love is a thing, well, it's kind of like quicksand. The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.