Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
A healthy outside starts from the inside
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Get busy livin, or get busy dyin'.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
With my brains and your looks, we could go places.
Come out, come out, wherever you are !
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Every dog has his day.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Where there is love there is life.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Love is the whole and more than all.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Mac, you ever been in love ?
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
And that's how you play "Get the Guests".
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
Never say die.
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
You're gonna need a bigger boat.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
What is life without the radiance of love.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
We can only learn to love by loving.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
Realize that you are capable of working miracles of your own making. Remember that opportunities have a reason for knocking on your door, and the right ones are there for the taking.
Those who laugh - last!!
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.