Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Our love is here to stay.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
May you live all the days of your life.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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.
Bring out the gimp.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.
It's showtime !
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Mac, you ever been in love ?
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
A heart can be broken, but it keeps beating just the same.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
I see dead people.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
If you build it, he will come.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
The dingo took my baby !
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Follow the money.
I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Love is the whole and more than all.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
Success is predictable.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle I find it too confining.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
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.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
What a dump.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
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.
Love is perfect kindness