Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
To know me is to love me.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
If you didn't know me, would you think I was a stranger ?
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
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.
I want the fairy tale.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Mama says, Stupid is as stupid does.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Love, two minds without a single thought.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
I'll be back.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Faith can move mountains.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
You've got to ask yourself one question : Do I feel lucky ? Well, do ya, punk ?
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
Well done is better than well said.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.