Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
It's never too late.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Live life to the fullest.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
I light my candle from their torches.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
We belong dead.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Rosebud.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Every truth has four corners, as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
To infinity and beyond !
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
In love beggar and king are equal.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
I'll be taking these huggies and whatever cash you got.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
The ready back gets all the loads.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Happy wife, happy life.
My life is my message.
Love is the river of life in the world.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Snap out of it !
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
You must motivate yourself every day.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.