Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
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They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Give all to love.
My heart shall be thy garden.
Shut up and deal.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
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.
But I would be proud.
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 there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
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
Begin with the end in mind.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people ?
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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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.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
All-righty then !
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Is it just me or is the grim reaper a straight-up hottie ?
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
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.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Love may make the world go around, but it's laughter that keeps us from getting dizzy.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
We're sisters under the same mink.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
How many doctors does it take to screw in a light bulb ? That depends on whether it has medical insurance.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
No man is wise enough by himself.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.