Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
There's no place like home.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
We go together, Laurie. I don't know why. Maybe like guns and ammunition go together.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
You had me at hello.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
Our intentions create our reality.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
It's hard to believe that you haven't had sex for two hundred years.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Carpe diem.
Ideas... they have the power
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
My mission was to take the invisible, the unloved and make them the heroes.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Our only security is in our ability to change.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
These go to eleven.
I think it pisses god off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Love conquers all.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Let's go home, Debbie.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
You can't express every feeling that you have every moment that you have them.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Sanctuary !
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Yes, it used to be beautiful -- what with the rackets, whoring, guns.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Don't just aspire to make a living. Aspire to make a difference.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.