Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
What's meant to be will always find a way
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
As if !
Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Love, two minds without a single thought.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
We must be the change we wish to see.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
They can because they think they can.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Love is a thing, well, it's kind of like quicksand. The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Love is a verb.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Let's roll.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
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.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
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.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
It's showtime !
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
They call it a "Royale with Cheese".
I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Love that is true never grows old.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
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.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.