Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Love is friendship set on fire.
Jane. Tarzan. Jane. Tarzan.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
If I had more time, I'd write a shorter speech.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
You had me at hello.
Stop makin noises like a husband.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
I'm melting ! Melting ! Oh, what a world ! What a world !
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
That dirty, double-crossin' rat !
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
That love is all there is is all we know of love.
Shane ! Shane ! Come back !
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Experience is the best teacher.
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
Personally, veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
The good physician treats the disease, the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
We'll always have Paris.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
A woman who is loved always has success.
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.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
You're so money, and you don't even know it.
In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations – it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Live your life and forget your age.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.