Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Act or accept.
The doctor should be opaque to his patients, and like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
The past does not equal the future.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
These go to eleven.
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Every truth has four corners, as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
The road to success is always under construction.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Mama says, Stupid is as stupid does.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
Don't dream it be it.
You know, maybe I was wrong and luck is like love. You have to go all the way to find it.
We belong dead.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
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Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Real love stories never have endings.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.
Anything is possible.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf ? Didn't you hear 'em ? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
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.