Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Bond. James Bond.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
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.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
All-righty then !
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
The past does not equal the future.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
There's no place like home.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
I'm here to fight for truth, justice, and the american way.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Follow the money.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Reach for the stars.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
We're on a mission from God.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
The loving are the daring.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
I want the fairy tale.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
I ain't so tough.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Don't water your weeds.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
I can't believe it. Right here where we live -- right here in St. Louis.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.
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.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
Make the second effort your second nature.
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.
Can you dig it ?
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in kansas anymore.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
Don't ever give up.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
There is time for everything.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Act or accept.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
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.