Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Okay, but I get to be on top.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against ?
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Roses are red, Violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
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.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
The heart that loves is always young.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
You're good, you're very good.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Don't water your weeds.
In love beggar and king are equal.
The list is an absolute good. The list is life.
Talkers are no good doers.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
This is this.
You only get out what you put in.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia. To mistake an ordinary young man for a greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Experience is the best teacher.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Honesty is the best image.
I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.
You sing-a high.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
A woman who is loved always has success.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Love, two minds without a single thought.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.