Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Love is the river of life in the world.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Attitude determines altitude.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Love is something eternal.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.
Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Bumper Sticker - Join the Army. See the world, travel to far away places, meet exotic people and kill them.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
May you live all the days of your life.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
There's no crying in baseball !
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
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.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
As a writer, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories, and I give them money.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
What hump ?
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Happy wife, happy life.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
Love knows no bounds.
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.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
You're gonna need a bigger boat.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
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.
Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
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.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
Without a general an army is lost.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.