Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
Don't fear, just live right.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Come out, come out, wherever you are !
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Love is a many splendered thing.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
You are what you think you are.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
Mr. Christian !
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
They can because they think they can.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
I'm going to take a bath.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Love is a fruit in season at all times.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
The best things in life are free.
There is no education like adversity.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Truth fears no questions.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Love is a thing, well, it's kind of like quicksand. The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
You always succeed in producing a result.
Chance is the fool's name for fate.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
The stuff that dreams are made of.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
I want the fairy tale.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Hasta la vista, baby. :
Change your thoughts, change your life.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Dreams don't work unless you do.
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
How do you live ?
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.