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Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.

In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.

Aristotle

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

Anonymous

Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.

Deborah Whipp

The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.

Ed Parker

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -

Elbert Hubbard

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

Anonymous

Most appreciated after dinner speech - I'll pay the check.

Unknown

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.

Swami Vivekananda

Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

Carl Sandburg

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Anonymous

If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.

Yogi Berra

Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.

Michael Johnson

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Fredrich Nietzsche

Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Edison

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.

Andy Warhol

Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.

Anonymous

If not us, who, if not now, when ?

Unknown

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.

Anonymous

It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.

Publius Terence

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.

Ella Williams

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Zig Ziglar

He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.

Robert Half

Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

Robert Half

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

Rumi

Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.

David Farragut

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Leo Tolstoy

No man is wise enough by himself.

Plautus

Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

Publilius Syrus

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !

Taako

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

Anthony Robbins

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Malcolm Gladwell

Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.

Harvey Mackay

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

Leon J. Suenes

All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.

Norma Desmond, Sunset Blvd (1950)

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Sandy Wilson

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

Confucius

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Anonymous

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Elbert Hubbard

Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.

Anonymous

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?

Jim Rohn

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.

Swami Vivekananda

Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.

Robert Half

The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.

Galatians 514

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

Dan Stanford

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.

Seneca

Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.

Ray Lyman Wilbur

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.

Brigham Young

You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

Maya Angelou

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

E. Joseph Cossman

Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

Chinese Proverb

It's good to be the king !

Louis XVI, History Of The World (1981)

The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

King Solomon

Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.

Pete Clemenza, The Godfather (1972)

Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.

Michael Johnson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

E.E. Cummings

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Napoleon Hill

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.

Peter De Vries

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Napoleon Hill

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Mahatma Gandhi

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Kahlil Gibran

To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.

Soren Kierkegaard

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Anatole France

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

Anita Brookner

On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.

Henry Drummond

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.

Thomas Edison

I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.

Thomas Edison

To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable

Helen Keller

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Albert Einstein

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?

Robert Browning

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Erich Segal

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Albert Einstein

Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !

Thomas Edison

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

Mignon McLaughlin

I'm an excellent driver.

Raymond Babbitt, Rain Man (1988)

A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.

Unknown

Ideas without action are worthless.

Harvey Mackay

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Albert Einstein

Help me ! Help me !

Andre Delambre, The Fly (1958)

Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.

Chinese Proverb

There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.

Anonymous