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Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Buckminster Fuller

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

Paul Sweeney

We're on a mission from God.

Elwood Blues, The Blues Brothers (1980)

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Jim Henson

Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr

Martha Friedman

Love is a many splendered thing.

Nat King Cole

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.

Anonymous

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.

Charles F. Kettering

Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.

Dalai Lama

Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Swami Vivekananda

Obstacles are great incentives.

Jules Michelet

Never give in -- never, never, never, never.

Winston Churchill

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Napoleon Hill

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Albert Einstein

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.

Kim Wilde

Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching

Satchel Paige

It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Washington Irving

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Napoleon Hill

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

Henry David Thoreau

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.

Unknown

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.

Robert H. Schuller

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Edward Young

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Dennis Waitley

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Anonymous

There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.

Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

It's good to be the king !

Louis XVI, History Of The World (1981)

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?

Paul Sweeney

They call it a "Royale with Cheese".

Vincent, Pulp Fiction (1994)

"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.

George P. Burnham

Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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.

Norman Vincent Peale

No matter where you go, there you are.

Steven Wright

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.

Michael Johnson

Sign: "Illiterate? Write for free help."

Unknown

The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.

Anonymous

Rosebud.

Charles Foster Kane, Citizen Kane (1941)

Anything in life worth having is worth working for.

Andrew Carnegie

The mark of a true doctor is usually illegible.

Anonymous

Immaturity can last a lifetime.

Robert Half

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

Richard Bach

We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.

Martha Washington

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

James F. Bymes

Our love is here to stay.

Ira Gershwin

The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.

Warren G. Bennis

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

Marcel Proust

Security is a kind of death.

Tennessee Williams

Sooner or later the truth comes to light.

Dutch Proverb

There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

St. Francis

You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.

Mike Connor, The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Frederick Douglass

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Confucius

Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !

Mars Blackmon, She's Gotta Have It (1986)

Love is smiling on the inside and out.

Jennifer Wilson

If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.

Maya Angelou

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !

W. Clement Stone

The secret of education lies in respecting the student.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.

Henry Ford

There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.

David Mahoney

Love is friendship set on fire.

Jeremy Taylor

All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

W. Clement Stone

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Japanese Proverb

What is life without the radiance of love.

Von Schiller

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

Thomas Jefferson

Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.

Anonymous

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Oscar Wilde

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

Anonymous

I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

Crash Davis, Bull Durham (1988)

In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

George S. Patton

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !

Unknown

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Seneca

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

Rollo May

The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.

George Catlin

That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.

David Wooderson, Dazed And Confused (1993)

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

William Shakespeare

Get busy living or get busy dying.

Stephen King

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

Cornelius Nepos

Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.

Unknown

There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.

Robert Woodruff

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.

Paul "Bear" Bryant

Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.

Nigerian Proverb

There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Phyllis Battome

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Kahlil Gibran