Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
To know me is to love me.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
Is it just me or is the grim reaper a straight-up hottie ?
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Rosebud.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
The mark of a true doctor is usually illegible.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
Stop makin noises like a husband.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Never say more than is necessary.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
I'm the ghost with the most, babe.
We belong dead.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Obstacles are great incentives.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Success is a journey not a destination.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Live life with passion.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
They can because they think they can.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Those who laugh - last!!