Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Work is love made manifest.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Faith can move mountains.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Mr. Christian !
Why don't you come up sometime and see me ?
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Union gives strength.
We go together, Laurie. I don't know why. Maybe like guns and ammunition go together.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Warriors, come out to play !
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Love can be understood only from the inside, as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
No wire hangers, ever !
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Fill your hands, you son-of-a-bitch !
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
There is no substitute for hard work.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Open the pod bay doors,
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
Yo, Adrian !
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Don't fear, just live right.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
That love is all there is is all we know of love.
My heart shall be thy garden.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
Act or accept.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
If you didn't know me, would you think I was a stranger ?
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Love, two minds without a single thought.