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

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Samuel Butler

A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.

Polybius

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Napoleon Hill

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Pearl Bailey

A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.

John A. Shedd

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

Brian Tracy

Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.

Laura Reynolds, Tea And Sympathy (1956)

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Winston Churchill

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

Josiah G. Holland

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Napoleon Hill

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

Norman Vincent Peale

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

Love is a moment that lasts forever.

Julie Wittey

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

There are few people who can manage more than their own business.

Martha Washington

I'll be taking these huggies and whatever cash you got.

H. I. McDunnough, Raising Arizona (1987)

Face it girls, I'm older and I have more insurance.

Evelyn Couch, Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butler

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Thomas Edison

Gort ! Klaatu barada nikto !

Helen Benson, The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

Walter Winchell

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.

Albert Einstein

No pain, No gain.

Unknown

Hi-Yo, Silver !

The Lone Ranger, The Lone Ranger (1956)

I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Albert Einstein

Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.

Stephen Covey

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

W. Clement Stone

For with god all things are possible.

Bible

You've got to ask yourself one question : Do I feel lucky ? Well, do ya, punk ?

Harry Callahan, Dirty Harry (1971)

We're on a mission from God.

Elwood Blues, The Blues Brothers (1980)

What's meant to be will always find a way

Trisha Yearwood

We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.

Sister Busche

Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.

Anonymous

I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley

Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.

Indian Proverb

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

Stephen Covey

Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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David Riklan

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Von Schiller Fulton J. Sheen

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Brian Tracy

I'm the ghost with the most, babe.

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice (1988)

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Hubert Humphrey

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

Horace

We will either find a way or make one.

Hannibal

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.

Henry David Thoreau

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Plutarch

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Anita Brookner

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Abraham Lincoln

Success is predictable.

Brian Tracy

Never say more than is necessary.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.

John Wooden

Roses are red, Violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

Unknown

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Benjamin Disraeli

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

The search for someone to blame is always successful.

Robert Half

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

Thomas Fuller

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

Anonymous

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Dale Carnegie

Think and grow rich.

Napoleon Hill

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

Stephen Covey

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.

Vince Lombardi

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.

Colossians 315

Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.

Christy Borgeld

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

W. Clement Stone

I want the fairy tale.

Vivian, Pretty Woman (1990)

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Steven Covey

To ask the hard question is simple.

W.H. Auden

Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.

Stephen Covey

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

David Schwartz

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

Samuel Coleridge

We have not yet begun to fight.

John Paul Jones

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.

Hasidic Proverb

Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !

Cloakroom Girl, Maudie Triplett (1932)

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

We tend to live up to our expectations.

Earl Nightingale

This is this.

Michael Vronsky, The Deer Hunter (1978)

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

Unknown

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Jacques Barzun

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T.S. Eliot

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

Jonathan Swift

If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.

Shelley Long

Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.

English Proverb

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

Burton Hills

Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Winston Churchill

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.

Harvey Mackay