Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
I'm here to fight for truth, justice, and the american way.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
You create your reality.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse
The dingo took my baby !
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give pulse for pulse, breath for breath. Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago.
Never, never, never give up.
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.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
To ask the hard question is simple.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
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.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Is it just me or is the grim reaper a straight-up hottie ?
It's showtime !
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
You've got to ask yourself one question : Do I feel lucky ? Well, do ya, punk ?
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Happiness is a state of mind.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Keep the Faith.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society -- outside of a kennel.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
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
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Children are all foreigners.
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
You're tearing me apart !
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
You had me at "hello".
L-I-V-E ! Live ! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
We can only learn to love by loving.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?