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

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

Chinese Proverb

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Hannah Arendy

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

Thomas Edison

Ideas... they have the power

Napoleon Hill

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Abraham Lincoln

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain !

The Wizard Of Oz, The Wizard Of Oz (1939)

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.

Mahatma Gandhi

Believe in yourself.

Unknown

All progress occurs because people dare to be different

Harry Milner

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Colette

Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.

Thomas Edison

Our only security is in our ability to change.

Sam Keen

The only reason I would take up jogging would be to hear heavy breathing again.

Erma Bombeck

I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Abraham Lincoln

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

William Makepeace Thackeray

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Thornton Wilder

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

Anatole France

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.

Carlo Brumat

If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

My biological clock is ticking like this, and the way this case is going, I ain't never getting married !

Mona Lisa Vito, My Cousin Vinny (1992)

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !

W. Clement Stone

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis Bacon

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

Bill Bernbach

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.

Stephen Covey

Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.

W. Clement Stone

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Jesus

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

Winston Churchill

Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.

Swami Vivekananda

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill

The greater the obstacle the more glory.

Moliere

Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.

Norman Vincent Peale

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin

Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.

Gabonese Proverb

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Cicero

Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

Anonymous

Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team

Red Auerbach

Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !

Mars Blackmon, She's Gotta Have It (1986)

Be the ball.

Ty Webb, Caddyshack (1980)

There are never enough I Love You's.

Lenny Bruce

There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.

Confucius

There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.

Perle Thompson

There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.

Abraham Maslow

The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.

Danish Proverb

Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.

Unknown

Chance is the fool's name for fate.

Guy Holden, The Gay Divorcee (1934)

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

Albert Einstein

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

William Edward Hickson

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Steven Covey

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Confucius

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

Francois Mauriac

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Kahlil Gibran

is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.

J.F.T. Bugental

Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude

Unknown

Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all ?

Queen, Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937)

Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.

French Proverb

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

Hedy Lamarr

As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia, said to me once, take your broken heart, make it into art.

Meryl Streep, @Golden Globes

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Confucius

By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.

Swami Vivekananda

We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.

Anonymous

If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.

Winston Churchill

Union gives strength.

Aesop

Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.

Joe Flacco

If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought

Peace Pilgrim

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work is love made manifest.

Unattributed

Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.

Anonymous

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Bunker Hunt

Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.

Robert Half

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

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

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Anne Sophie Swetchine

Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !

Ira Gershwin

Success is never ending, failure is never final.

Dr. Robert Schuller

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Bernard M. Baruch

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.

Anonymous

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Napoleon Hill

We’re alive! We can make a difference! We can turn this ship in the way we wanna go, man! Towards love, creating a healthy planet for all of us.

Ryan Murphy, @Golden Globes

A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.

Anonymous

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

Solon

You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.

Michael Johnson

I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.

Steven Wright

But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.

Thomas Moore

The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

John Stuart Mill