Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Never spend your money before you have it.
And that's how you play "Get the Guests".
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
Our only security is in our ability to change.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
I cannot stand little notes on my pillow ! We are all out of cornflakes,
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Don't dream it be it.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Count your blessings.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
If you love someone, set them free.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
I am your father.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
This is this.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
They're here !
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
All mankind love a lover.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Success is the child of audacity.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
It's showtime !
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Increase the chances of reaching your goals by working at them gradually. The very best you can do is all that is asked of you.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Better late than never.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.