Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Excuse me while I whip this out.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Rosebud.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
It's hard to believe that you haven't had sex for two hundred years.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
God doesn't make junk.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
We're on a mission from God.
Must you flirt ?
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Don't fear, just live right.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Love is a moment that lasts forever.
Find the good -- and praise it.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
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.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Show me the money !
In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations – it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway.
You're good, but you're going to be great.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.
Success is a journey not a destination.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
Love as much as you can from wherever you are.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Don't dream it be it.
I know that I will die laughing.
Changes in life are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.