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

Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.

Swami Vivekananda

When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.

Norman Vincent Peale

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?

Marian Wright Edelman

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.

Anthony Robbins

We're on a mission from God.

Elwood Blues, The Blues Brothers (1980)

Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Joe Flacco

We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.

George Bernard Shaw

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Goethe

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

John Dryden

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.

Jane Austen

And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.

Samuel Coleridge

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

E. Joseph Cossman

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.

Lord Byron

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Dalai Lama

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.

Margaret Thatcher

You're tearing me apart !

Jim Stark, Rebel Without Cause (1955)

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You must motivate yourself every day.

Matthew Stasior

Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.

Jean Sibelius

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

Alan Ashley-Pitt

Eddie, you're a born loser.

Bert Gordon, The Hustler (1961)

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Anthony Robbins

The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.

Norman Vincent Peale

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.

Stephen Packer

Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.

Swami Vivekananda

Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.

Swami Vivekananda

Do you want a leg or a breast ?

Frances Stevens, To Catch A Thief (1955)

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.

Albert Einstein

An obstacle is often a stepping stone.

Prescott

Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.

Ellie Andrews, It Happened One Night (1934)

Act or accept.

Unknown

Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.

Harvey Mackay

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

John Lennon Mignon McLaughlin

Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.

Mike Conovan, Pat And Mike (1952)

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Leo Tolstoy

Stop makin noises like a husband.

Vera, Detour (1945)

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.

Washington Irving

We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.

Desmond Tutu

It's like, I became such a good person, I almost forgot... I'm a world class liar, baby !

Taako

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

Bunker Hunt

It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Washington Irving

First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Napoleon Hill

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

John C. Maxwell

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

You will never find time for anything. You must make it.

Charles Buxton

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Channing Pollock

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Anthony Robbins

Never Quit.

Unknown

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .

John Greenleaf Whittier

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Tony Dorsett

Without a general an army is lost.

Greek Proverb

Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.

Henry Ford

Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

D.H. Lawrence

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.

Thomas Edison

What you cannot enforce, Do not command.

Sophocles

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Napoleon Hill

Our love is here to stay.

Ira Gershwin

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

Aristotle

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.

David Ogilvy

If a man does his best, what else is there ?

General George S. Patton

Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only

Plautus

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

Norman Vincent Peale

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

George Sands

A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.

John P. Strelecky

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Charles Kingsley

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Charles F. Kettering

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons ! The loons ! They're welcoming us back.

Ethel Thayer, On Golden Pond (1981)

What is life without the radiance of love.

Von Schiller

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

Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !

Earl Nightingale

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Margaret Thatcher

Whatever you are be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

Well, nobody's perfect.

Osgood Fielding III, Some Like It Hot (1959)

If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.

Anonymous

What we've got here is failure to communicate.

Captain, Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

Rosemonde Gerard

The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.

Joseph Ray

Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.

Katie Lusk

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.

Michael Norwood

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Thomas Jefferson

This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.

Swami Vivekananda

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

Woody Allen