Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
They call me Mister Tibbs !
Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
Everybody forgets the basic thing, people are not going to love you unless you love them.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
You create your reality.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Nothing succeeds like success.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
If you build it, he will come.
If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Practice makes perfect.
There's no crying in baseball !
Honesty is the best image.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Attica ! Attica !
No one became poor by giving alms.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia, said to me once, take your broken heart, make it into art.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Love is something eternal.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Tonight's weather forecast - dark, with continued darkness until morning.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Hope springs eternal.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
No pain, No gain.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.