Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
They're here !
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
I have a head for business and a bod for sin.
Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.
It's never too late.
Changes in life are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
Where's the rest of me ?
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
My friends are my estate.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
What's another word for thesaurus ?
You're good, but you're going to be great.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Must you flirt ?
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
I won't be ignored, Dan !
If they move, kill ' em.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Think of me as a sex symbol for men who don't give a damn.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
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.
Anything is possible.
I bet you can squeal like a pig.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
When you suffer, psychologically, remain with it completely without a single movement of thought. Out of that suffering comes compassion. And that energy is totally different from the mechanistic energy of thought.
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.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
My biological clock is ticking like this, and the way this case is going, I ain't never getting married !
We'll always have Paris.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.