Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Stella ! Hey, Stella !
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
I bet you can squeal like a pig.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Hard work pays off.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Say hello to my little friend !
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
I don't give a shit.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
My heart shall be thy garden.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
The good physician treats the disease, the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
There is no education like adversity.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Show me the money !
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Be who you are in every situation.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
The Golden Globes are to the Oscars what Kim Kardashian is to Kate Middleton - a bit louder, a bit trashier, a bit drunker and more easily bought - allegedly!
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid.