Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Only the educated are free.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
I don't know nothin 'bout birthin' babies.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
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.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.
My heart is ever at your service.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
What ever you are be a good one.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
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.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
To infinity and beyond !
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Begin with the end in mind.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
One, two, Freddy's coming for you.
No one became poor by giving alms.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Yes, it used to be beautiful -- what with the rackets, whoring, guns.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Security is a kind of death.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight ?
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
It ain't over till it's over.
Better late than never.
Love as much as you can from wherever you are.
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Happy wife, happy life.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.