Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole ! It's in the hole ! It's in the hole !
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
Whenever I think of the past it just brings back so many memories.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
She's my sister ! She's my daughter !
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
Bad news, compadres, this place is magic as hell.
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
How many chiropractors does it take to change a light bulb ? Just one, but it requires 21 office visits and 4 X-rays.
They're called boobs, Ed.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
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If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one’s life.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Experience is the best teacher.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
It's hard to believe that you haven't had sex for two hundred years.
Success is a journey not a destination.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
How do you live ?
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
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.
A healthy outside starts from the inside
Bring out the gimp.
Where there is love there is life.
Ask yourself : 'Do I feel the need to laminate ? ' Then teaching is for you.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
The heart that loves is always young.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Nothing succeeds like success.
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
The show must go on.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
If you love someone, set them free.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
I have loved to the point of madness, that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.