Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
To God, there is no zero. I still exist.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
Love is a thing, well, it's kind of like quicksand. The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool !
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
I'm an excellent driver.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Do, or do not. There is no try.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Go ahead, make my day.
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.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Love conquers all.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
The truth is more important than the facts.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
We'll always have Paris.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
If you didn't know me, would you think I was a stranger ?
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
I can't believe it. Right here where we live -- right here in St. Louis.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
Ask yourself : 'Do I feel the need to laminate ? ' Then teaching is for you.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
I don't like your manners.
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.