Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
A healthy outside starts from the inside
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Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Don’t run away from things that are unpleasant in order to embrace things that are pleasant. Put your hands in the earth. Face the difficulties and grow new happiness.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
There's no crying in baseball !
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !
Believe in yourself.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
You know, maybe I was wrong and luck is like love. You have to go all the way to find it.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
I am your father.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
Bond. James Bond.
One million dollars !
Love may make the world go around, but it's laughter that keeps us from getting dizzy.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia. To mistake an ordinary young man for a greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
We are all born for love, it is the principle existence and it's only end.
Pay your taxes, mind your business and keep Will Smith’s wife’s name out of your (bleeping) mouth.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
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.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Shut up and deal.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
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.
Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Strike while the iron is hot.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.