Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Open the pod bay doors,
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
The world belongs to the energetic.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Get away from her, you bitch !
Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
A boy's best friend is his mother.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
What do you feel like doing tonight ?
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Things do not change we change.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
It is always your next move.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
The best things in life are not things.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
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.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Mama, face it. I was the slut of all time.
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Look at that ! Look how she moves. That's just like Jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motor. I tell you, it's a whole different sex !
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
What is it you want, Mary ? What do you want ? You want the moon ? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
To God, there is no zero. I still exist.