Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Never, never, never give up.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
From now on you will never be alone, even when we are separated, and even when death itself parts us, I shall remain with you.
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
I want the fairy tale.
Live life with passion.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Let's go home, Debbie.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
We are all born for love, it is the principle existence and it's only end.
Letting go of our suffering is the hardest thing we will ever do.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
I cannot stand little notes on my pillow ! We are all out of cornflakes,
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
Love is not selfish.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Warriors, come out to play !
Embrace your inner voice.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
Think of me as a sex symbol for men who don't give a damn.
Our intentions create our reality.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
The best things in life are free.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
We rob banks.
Life is what you make it.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Hey, lady !
Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns !
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.