Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
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Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
But I would be proud.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
You see, Francois, marriage is a beautiful mistake which two people make together. But with you, Francois, I think it would be a mistake.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
A healthy outside starts from the inside
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
You create your reality.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
You had me at "hello".
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore !
Snap out of it !
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
You make me want to be a better man.
If they move, kill ' em.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
If you build it, he will come.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
Things do not change we change.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
The road to success is always under construction.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.
If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse
Love is a great beautifier.
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
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.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.