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Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.

Beverly Sills

Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.

Greg Anderson

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Margaret Thatcher

I am your father.

Darth Vader, Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

E. Joseph Cossman

All you need is love.

John Lennon

What is essential is invisible to the eyes.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.

Cicero

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

William Edward Hickson

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

Henry David Thoreau

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Oscar Wilde

Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

J.M. Barrie

There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.

Perle Thompson

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.

Willis Whitney

They call it a "Royale with Cheese".

Vincent, Pulp Fiction (1994)

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

J.A. Froude

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Alfred North Whitehead

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis Bacon

Ideas without action are worthless.

Harvey Mackay

If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.

Thomas Edison

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.

Bertrand Russell

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Albert Einstein

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

Steve McCroskey, Airplane (1980)

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

Horace

Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.

Peter Davies

Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.

Christy Borgeld

Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.

English Proverb

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo

We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Samuel Butler

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.

Karl Jaspers

I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.

Thomas Edison

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

Albert Einstein

Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.

Anonymous

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .

John Greenleaf Whittier

Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.

Chinese Proverb

Wisdom is knowing what to do next.

David Starr Jordan

Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.

Harvey Mackay

There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.

Abraham Maslow

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes

Dennis Waitley

Whatever you are be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

Love is the only rational act.

Morrie Schwarz

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Thomas Jefferson

All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.

Anonymous

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

W. Clement Stone

The show must go on.

Proverb

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

Anonymous

A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.

John A. Shedd

I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart.

Michael Corleone, The Godfather (1974)

Success is never ending, failure is never final.

Dr. Robert Schuller

To infinity and beyond !

Buzz Lightyear, Toy Story (1995)

He who lives without discipline dies without honor.

Icelandic Proverb

It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.

Marcel Proust

There is no substitute for hard work.

Thomas Edison

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Jonathan Winters

Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Germaine De Stael

There is no beauty but the beauty of action.

Proverb

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.

Michel de Montaigne

The past does not equal the future.

Anthony Robbins

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

Paul Sweeney

All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.

Swami Vivekananda

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill

I cannot stand little notes on my pillow ! We are all out of cornflakes,

Oscar Madison, F (1968)

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Charles Dickens

A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.

Canary Island Proverb

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.

Marilyn Ferguson

It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.

Sandra Swinney

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

Levi ben Gershon

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Corneille

Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.

Val Saintsbury

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

Dale Carnegie

Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.

Lisa Grude

I'm melting ! Melting ! Oh, what a world ! What a world !

The Wicked Witch Of The West, The Wizard Of Oz (1939)

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

Richard B. Sheridan

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Margaret Thatcher

A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Chinese Proverb

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

Carl Bard

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Muhamed Ali

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

Anonymous

Realize that you are capable of working miracles of your own making. Remember that opportunities have a reason for knocking on your door, and the right ones are there for the taking.

Collin McCarty

Every human heart is human.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid.

Hal (V.O.), 2001: A Space Odyssey (2001)