Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
The show must go on.
You know the difference between you and me ? I make this look good.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
If you ever feel like having a child, go to a restaurant and sit next to one.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
One million dollars !
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Fortune favors the brave.
Our intentions create our reality.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
What a dump.
Personally, veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
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.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
The road to success is always under construction.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Let thy words be few.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Hoke, you're my best friend.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Mama, face it. I was the slut of all time.
Obstacles are great incentives.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
He who hesitates is lost !
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
How many doctors does it take to screw in a light bulb ? That depends on whether it has medical insurance.
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.
And that's how you play "Get the Guests".
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.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
I know that I will die laughing.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Funny like I'm a clown ? I amuse you ?
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?