Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
I want to be alone.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
I won't be ignored, Dan !
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
How many doctors does it take to screw in a light bulb ? That depends on whether it has medical insurance.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
You are what you think you are.
Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable ?
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
You know the difference between you and me ? I make this look good.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Would you like to come in ?
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
There is time for everything.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Hi, Curly, kill anyone today ?
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
What a dump.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
There are simply too many notes.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you ?
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons ! The loons ! They're welcoming us back.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Ask yourself : 'Do I feel the need to laminate ? ' Then teaching is for you.
There is no education like adversity.
Bitterness imprisons life, love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life, love empowers it. Bitterness sours life, love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life, love heals it. Bitterness blinds life, love anoints it's eyes.
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.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Look, Daddy. Teacher says, Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Love can be understood only from the inside, as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Ideas without action are worthless.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Real love stories never have endings.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.