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

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Ann Landers

To know me is to love me.

Unknown

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.

Dennis Waitley

If you didn't know me, would you think I was a stranger ?

Steven Wright

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Peter F. Drucker

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

Abraham Lincoln

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.

Donald Trump

Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.

Afghan Proverb

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Unattributed

Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Thomas Edison

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

Thomas Szasz

If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.

Swami Vivekananda

I want the fairy tale.

Vivian, Pretty Woman (1990)

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.

Zen Proverb

Life is a do-it yourself project.

Dennis Waitley

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 person does not hear.

Thomas Edison

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Will Rogers

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

Abraham Lincoln

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.

Tommy Lasorda

This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.

Scott Reed

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

Mark Twain

If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.

Oprah Winfrey

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

W. Clement Stone

It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.

Jerry Greenfield

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

Anonymous

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

William Curry Theodore

Mama says, Stupid is as stupid does.

Young Forrest Gump, Forrest Gump (1994)

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.

Anonymous

Love, two minds without a single thought.

Philip Barry

The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Elizabeth Bowen

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

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

Stephen Covey

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts

Albert Einstein

Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas Edison

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot

Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.

E. E. Hale

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Confucius

The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.

J. Richard Clarke

I'll be back.

The Terminator, The Terminator (1984)

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

Shelley Long

The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.

Danish Proverb

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.

Oscar Wilde

The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.

Saudi Arabian Proverb

Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.

Winston Churchill

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Lubbock

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.

C. Archie Danielson

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Winston Churchill

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.

Oscar Wilde

Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.

Winston Churchill

Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.

Anonymous

Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.

Bill Blackman

Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.

Aristotle

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion

Aristotle

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

You haven't failed until you quit trying.

Anonymous

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Anonymous

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

Lou Gehrig, The Pride Of The Yankees (1942)

One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.

C. T. Davis

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Germaine De Stael

The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.

Anonymous

In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The point is that you can't be too greedy.

Donald Trump

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

Faith can move mountains.

Unknown

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.

Les Brown

Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

Margaret Thatcher

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Brian Tracy

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Zig Ziglar

I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.

Dixon Steele, In A Lonely Place (1950)

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

John Cotton Dana

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

St. Clement

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.

Eileen Caddy

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

Cornelius Nepos

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.

Robert F. Kennedy

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.

Philip Armour

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Harry Callahan, Dirty Harry (1971)

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Unknown

A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.

Anonymous

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Stephen Covey

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.

Anonymous

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

William Bridges

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.

Napoleon Hill