Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Nobody puts baby in a corner.
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
May you live all the days of your life.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
If you build it, he will come.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
It ain't over till it's over.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
All work is empty save when there is love.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
I am your number one fan.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
I love a good fight.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
Hi-Yo, Silver !
La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
What we've got here is failure to communicate.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Tonight's weather forecast - dark, with continued darkness until morning.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape !
I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Don't ever give up.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Where there's life, there's hope.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
What's another word for thesaurus ?
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.