Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
After all, tomorrow is another day !
Those who laugh - last!!
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Mac, you ever been in love ?
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
They can because they think they can.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
We're sisters under the same mink.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
Have you checked the children lately ?
For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
If I had more time, I'd write a shorter speech.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Do what you love and the money will follow
We go together, Laurie. I don't know why. Maybe like guns and ammunition go together.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
We have not yet begun to fight.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.
Non !
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death !
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
I'm an excellent driver.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
You're so money, and you don't even know it.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Press forsake! Go ahead and press 'forsake now' !
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
They call it a "Royale with Cheese".
A life lived in fear is half lived.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Success is never wondering what if.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.