Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
You sing-a high.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Would you like to play a game ?
Stop makin noises like a husband.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
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.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
You know, maybe I was wrong and luck is like love. You have to go all the way to find it.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Ideas without action are worthless.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
What do you feel like doing tonight ?
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Love those who love you.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes