Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Roll with the punches.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
I bet you can squeal like a pig.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
The world belongs to the energetic.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
Carpe diem.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
It's amazing, Molly. The love inside, you take it with you.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
A heart as soft, a heart as kind, a heart as sound and free as in the whole world thou canst find that heart I'll give to thee.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
The best way out is always through.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
All-righty then !
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
A woman who is loved always has success.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
We're sisters under the same mink.
I don't give a shit.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
It's never too late.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Here's looking at you, kid.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
The buck stops here.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?