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

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.

Anonymous

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Anatole France

We all go a little mad sometimes.

Norman Bates, Psycho (1960)

A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.

Anonymous

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.

Winston Churchill

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.

Robert H. Schuller

Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.

Mike Conovan, Pat And Mike (1952)

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

Josiah G. Holland

Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you ?

Benjamin Braddock, The Graduate (1967)

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

George Santayana

If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.

Unknown

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

Norman Vincent Peale

The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.

Levell Edwards

The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.

Norman Vincent Peale

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Thomas Carlyle

Hey, lady !

Herbert H. Heebert, The Ladies Man (1961)

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Steven Covey

Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.

Robert Sexton

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

W. Clement Stone

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Publilius Syrus

Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

Margaret Thatcher

I'm king of the world !

Jack Dawson, Titanic (1997)

I'm going to take a bath.

Arthur Bach, Hobson (1981)

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Anthony Robbins

Anything is possible.

Unknown

Bad news, compadres, this place is magic as hell.

Taako

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Jim Rohn

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?

George Eliot

Hope springs eternal.

Alexander Pope

People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.

Unknown

Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.

Egyptian Proverb

They call it a "Royale with Cheese".

Vincent, Pulp Fiction (1994)

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Douglas Adams

Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

W. Stanley Mooneyham

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.

Harvey Mackay

The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

Anonymous

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

John Ruskin

Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".

Jim Rohn

Who so loves believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love that is true never grows old.

Elben Bano

What hump ?

Igor, Young Frankenstein (1974)

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Mahatma Gandhi

Where there is love there is no darkness.

Burundi Proverb

Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.

Collin McCarty

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Buckminster Fuller

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Leo Tolstoy

No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.

Martin Buber

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

Richard Bach

Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.

Tom Joad, The Grapes Of Wrath (1940)

Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.

Mingjiao

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.

Abraham Lincoln

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

T.S. Eliot

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Anatole France

Whatever happens, take responsibility !

Anthony Robbins

Do it now !

Napoleon Hill

There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Thomas Jefferson

Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.

Spanish Proverb

If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.

Anonymous

Honor the ocean of love.

George de Benneville

What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?

John Milton

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.

Ricky Fitts, American Beauty (1999)

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.

Henry Ward Beecher

The crocodile is only strong in the water.

Angolan Proverb

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement

W. Clement Stone

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

Anonymous

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Anonymous

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

Thomas Edison

A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.

Elbert Hubbard

Embrace that it's ok to grow.

John P. Strelecky

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.

Anonymous

Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.

Tom Hopkins

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.

Robert H. Schuller

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

What's another word for thesaurus ?

Steven Wright

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.

Ladislaus Boros

A bold onset is half the battle.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Stephen A. Brennan

Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.

Rollo May

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcott

If you wanna call me that, smile.

The Virginian, The Virginian (1929)

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Unknown

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Francis of Assisi

Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.

Karl G. Maeser

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

F.M. Hubbard