Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Why don't you come up sometime and see me ?
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.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
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.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
I make wine at home. I make it out of raisins so that it will be aged automatically.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
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.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
Look, Daddy. Teacher says, Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
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.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.
We will either find a way or make one.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Truth fears no questions.
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
Hasta la vista, baby. :
I think we deserve a break.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
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.
You are what you think you are.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Live with passion !
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
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.
Love is friendship set to music
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
They call it a "Royale with Cheese".
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against ?
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.