Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
One, two, Freddy's coming for you.
A heart can be broken, but it keeps beating just the same.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
I'm king of the world !
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
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.
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
If you didn't know me, would you think I was a stranger ?
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations – it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir.
I'll remember you, honey. You're the one that got away.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
You know, maybe I was wrong and luck is like love. You have to go all the way to find it.
No involvement, no commitment.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Love conquers all.
Know thyself.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one’s life.
The dedicated doctor knows that he must be both scientist and humanitarian, his most agonizing decisions lie in the field of human relations.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Success is never wondering what if.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or catholics.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Mac, you ever been in love ?
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
I can't believe it. Right here where we live -- right here in St. Louis.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.