Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Show me the money !
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
God doesn't make junk.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die !
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
It is only when we die each day to all that is old that there can be the new.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
I am not a toy. I am a spork !
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Love is not selfish.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
A simple I love you means more than money.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
You know, Billy. We blew it.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.
Nothing succeeds like success.
You are what you think you are.
Realize that you are capable of working miracles of your own making. Remember that opportunities have a reason for knocking on your door, and the right ones are there for the taking.
How many doctors does it take to screw in a light bulb ? That depends on whether it has medical insurance.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce ? The cuckoo clock.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Remove failure as an option.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
Snap out of it !
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
Love is friendship set on fire.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
The time is always right to do what is right.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
Georgia, love is for the very young.
Happiness is a choice.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against ?
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
The stuff that dreams are made of.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.