Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
If you didn't know me, would you think I was a stranger ?
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
He who hesitates is lost !
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or catholics.
We can only learn to love by loving.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
For with god all things are possible.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
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.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
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.
Don't follow your dreams, chase them.
My heart is ever at your service.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
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.
Attica ! Attica !
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Love is the only gold.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
These go to eleven.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Experience is the best teacher.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Hope springs eternal.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Yo, Adrian !
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
You make me want to be a better man.
Tonight's weather forecast - dark, with continued darkness until morning.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
My biological clock is ticking like this, and the way this case is going, I ain't never getting married !
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too !