Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Be the ball.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
It's showtime !
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns !
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care
No wire hangers, ever !
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death !
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
For one person to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the last test and proof, the work for which all else is but preparation.
Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Begin with the end in mind.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
Never say die.
Let's roll.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
If I had more time, I'd write a shorter speech.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
The Golden Globes are to the Oscars what Kim Kardashian is to Kate Middleton - a bit louder, a bit trashier, a bit drunker and more easily bought - allegedly!
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
All you need is love.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.