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Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.

If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Mohandas Gandhi, Gandhi (1982)

It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

George F. Will

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.

Persian Proverb

It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Rene Descartes

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.

Verbal Kint, The Usual Suspects (1995)

Our love is here to stay.

Ira Gershwin

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.

Levell Edwards

Think and grow rich.

Napoleon Hill

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.

Dale Carnegie

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

La Bruyere

I'm an excellent driver.

Raymond Babbitt, Rain Man (1988)

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

John Muir

I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.

Alvy Singer, Annie Hall (1977)

Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

Swami Vivekananda

If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.

Anonymous

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

James F. Bymes

It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.

Pete Clemenza, The Godfather (1972)

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

Anonymous

A martini. Shaken, not stirred.

James Bond, Goldfinger (1964)

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

Lou Holtz

Life is "trying things to see if they work"

Ray Bradbury

Don't follow your dreams, chase them.

Richard Dumb

If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.

Anonymous

What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Anthony Robbins

No matter where you go, there you are.

Steven Wright

Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.

Bill Blackman

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Winston Churchill

The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.

Dale Carnegie

To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.

Carlos Castaneda

The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.

Allard Lowenstein

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Norman Vincent Peale

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.

Conrad Hilton

Change your thoughts, change your life.

James Allen

Strike while the iron is hot.

Proverb

Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas Edison

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

E. Joseph Cossman

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Zig Ziglar

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

Henry David Thoreau

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.

Francois Mauriac

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

Dale E. Turner

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -

Elbert Hubbard

With malice toward none, with charity for all.

Abraham Lincoln

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

Marcus Aurelius

Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.

Dalai Lama

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

Alphonse Marie De Lamartine

I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.

Lorelei, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Winston Churchill

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.

Chinese Proverb

A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face.

The Blue Fairy, Pinocchio (1940)

We belong dead.

The Monster, Bride Of Frankenstein (1935)

Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.

Harvey Mackay

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

Norman Vincent Peale

This is the people's war ! It is our war ! We are the fighters ! Fight it, then ! Fight it with all that is in us, and may god defend the right.

Vicar, Mrs Miniver (1942)

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Derek Bok

My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.

Hebrew Proverb

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Buckminster Fuller

An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

John H. Patterson

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Winston Churchill

Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -

Kyle Chandler

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.

Count Leon D'Algout, Ninotchka (1939)

When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.

Norman Vincent Peale

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Buddha

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

Publilius Syrus

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Stephen A. Brennan

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha

Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Dennis Waitley

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.

Anonymous

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Anais Nin

Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.

Assyrian Proverb

If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.

Justin Sims

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

George S. Patton

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.

Rabindranath Tagore

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal

Earl Nightingale

Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.

Stacie Cunningham

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.

Albert Einstein

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Confucius

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Pearl Bailey

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James