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

The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.

Mike Litman

I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.

Winston Churchill

If you didn't know me, would you think I was a stranger ?

Steven Wright

Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.

Marsha Sinetar

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !

Theodore Roosevelt

Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.

Otomo No Yakamochi

Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.

Unknown

A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.

Karl Kraus

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.

Val Saintsbury

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

Anonymous

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Nicholas Murray Butler

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Thomas Jefferson

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

Ovid

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

J.G. Holland

Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.

Hector Berlioz

He who hesitates is lost !

Proverb

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.

Harvey Mackay

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

William James

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.

Proverb

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.

Unknown

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

Benjamin Disraeli

I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or catholics.

Isaac Davis, Manhattan (1979)

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude

Unknown

For with god all things are possible.

Bible

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

Napoleon Hill

Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.

Carlo Brumat

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

Anonymous

I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.

City of Angels

There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.

William George Jordan

Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.

Swami Vivekananda

Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.

John P. Strelecky

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.

Conrad Hilton

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.

Vince Lombardi

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.

Ricky Fitts, American Beauty (1999)

Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

Dennis Waitley

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.

Henry David Thoreau

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

John F. Kennedy

A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.

Polybius

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

Thomas Edison

Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.

Nigerian Proverb

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

Leo Buscaglia

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.

Swami Vivekananda

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?

Robert H. Schuller

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Charles Buxton

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

Don't follow your dreams, chase them.

Richard Dumb

My heart is ever at your service.

Shakespeare

Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.

Butch Cassidy, Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969)

The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.

Leonard Nimoy

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

Deborah Whipp

Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Dennis Waitley

Attica ! Attica !

Sonny Wortzik, Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.

Anonymous

Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.

Thomas Edison

Love is the only gold.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work

William Ernest Henley

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Jonathan Winters

Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.

Chinese Proverb

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Robert H. Schuller

We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.

Anonymous

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

Ray Lyman Wilbur

In the space age the most important space is between the ears.

Anne Armstrong

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Alexander Smith

These go to eleven.

Nigel Tufnel, This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Anatole France

All progress occurs because people dare to be different

Harry Milner

Experience is the best teacher.

Proverb

Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".

Jim Rohn

The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.

Hubert Hawkins, The Court Jester (1956)

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

Carl Jung

Hope springs eternal.

Alexander Pope

No one is so poor as an ignorant person.

Hebrew Proverb

Yo, Adrian !

Rocky Balboa, Rocky (1976)

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

William J.H

You make me want to be a better man.

Melvin Udall, As Good As It Gets (1997)

Tonight's weather forecast - dark, with continued darkness until morning.

George Carlin

I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.

Ted Turner

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

My biological clock is ticking like this, and the way this case is going, I ain't never getting married !

Mona Lisa Vito, My Cousin Vinny (1992)

We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

Brian Tracy

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

Yogi Berra

Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

George William Curtis

What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Mahatma Gandhi

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Samuel Goldwyn

I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too !

The Wicked Witch Of The West, The Wizard Of Oz (1939)