Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
The book you don't read cant help.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Stop makin noises like a husband.
Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Our love is here to stay.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Stand-up comedy is a brutal business. And thanks to Netflix, people get overpaid for it.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
For Love is Immortality.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
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.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
We rob banks.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Hey, lady !
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Only the healing art enables one to make a name for himself and at the same time give benefit to others.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
Without a general an army is lost.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
I light my candle from their torches.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.