Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
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 didn't know me, would you think I was a stranger ?
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Success leaves clues.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Face it girls, I'm older and I have more insurance.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
You always succeed in producing a result.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Success is never wondering what if.
Be the best that you can be.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
You talkin to me ?
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Faith can move mountains.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
I have a head for business and a bod for sin.
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
Don't just aspire to make a living. Aspire to make a difference.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.