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

We get to make a living , we give to make a life.

Winston Churchill

Talkers are no good doers.

William Shakespeare

God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.

Swami Vivekananda

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

J.A. Froude

I don't like your manners.

Vivian Rutledge, Philip Marlowe (1946)

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Thomas Jefferson

And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.

Buddha

Gort ! Klaatu barada nikto !

Helen Benson, The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Oscar Wilde

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

Paulo Coelho

You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

William S. Burroughs

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

Chinese Proverb

Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.

Abraham Lincoln

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

John Davidson Rockefeller

You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.

Anonymous

Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.

Maximus, Gladiator (2000)

Inner silence promotes clarity of mind. It makes us value the inner world, it trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges.

Deepak Chopra

For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.

William J. Bennett

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

Stan Smith

There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.

Robert Woodruff

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Michael Jordan

Love is like the wild rose-briar. Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly ?

Emily Bronte

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are made.

Micheal Pritchard

In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention.

Waldo Lydecker, Laura (1944)

Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.

Norman Vincent Peale

Good morning, Vietnam !

Adrian Kronauer, Good Morning (1987)

They alone live, who live for others.

Swami Vivekananda

If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!

Charles Barkley

Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.

Admiral Collingwood

Immaturity can last a lifetime.

Robert Half

Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.

Victor Hugo

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.

Henry David Thoreau

If you build it, he will come.

Shoeless Joe Jackson, Field Of Dreams (1989)

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Fredrich Nietzsche

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

You are today where your thoughts have brought

James Allen

Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.

Tom Larson

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.

Seneca

It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

William Makepeace Thackeray

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Margaret Thatcher

In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.

Norman Vincent Peale

In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Shirley Lord

Many hands make light work.

Proverb

Snakes ! Why did it have to be snakes ?

Indiana Jones, Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1987)

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

George S. Patton

Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.

W. Clement Stone

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Alice Meynell

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

Japanese Proverb

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Dale Carnegie

Who's on first.

Dexter, The Naughty Nineties (1945)

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.

Harvey Mackay

Don't think it, ink it.

Mark Victor Hansen

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Anthony Robbins

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.

William Arthur Ward

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

Marcel Proust

Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.

Marilyn vos Savant

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.

Goethe

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

Abraham Lincoln

Ask for advice but do what you think is best.

Greek Proverb

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too !

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

Love is a hole in the heart.

Ben Hecht

If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.

Dean Marshall Art Linkletter

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Goethe

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

David Lloyd George

Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. If you kick'em all out, you'll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.

Meryl Streep, @Golden Globes

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.

Verbal Kint, The Usual Suspects (1995)

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Jim Rohn

The first duty of love is to listen.

Paul Tillich

There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.

Anonymous

If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.

Yusuf Tara

Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.

E. E. Hale

I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.

Thomas Jefferson

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.

Sophocles

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

Dennis Waitley

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

Sidonie Gabrielle

Do you want a leg or a breast ?

Frances Stevens, To Catch A Thief (1955)

Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.

Christy Borgeld

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Dennis Waitley

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?

Abraham Lincoln

I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.

Rumi

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Henry Ward Beecher

Whatever you are be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.

B.C. Forbes

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Emily P. Bissell