Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Every artist was first an amateur.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons ! The loons ! They're welcoming us back.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
If they move, kill ' em.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Keep the Faith.
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle I find it too confining.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Dreams don't work unless you do.
Actions speak louder than words.
Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
Gobble gobble, gobble gobble. We accept her. One of us, one of us.
There is no education like adversity.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Make the second effort your second nature.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
We didn't need dialogue. We had faces.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
There is time for everything.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Every human heart is human.
Love is not selfish.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
I'm here to fight for truth, justice, and the american way.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
My friends are my estate.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Young love is a flame , very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
All work is empty save when there is love.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
I love a good fight.