Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
I bet you can squeal like a pig.
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 !
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
What's meant to be will always find a way
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
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.
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Better late than never.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
What is life without the radiance of love.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
You only get out what you put in.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Oh, it was nobody's fault but my own. I was looking up. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You were there.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
What ever you are be a good one.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
I love you. I've loved you since the first moment I saw you. I guess maybe Ive even loved you before I saw you.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
Do you think that there is a word that contains all of the vowels? Unquestionably.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.