Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush.
Get away from her, you bitch !
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
One million dollars !
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Many hands make light work.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
As a writer, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories, and I give them money.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.
My biological clock is ticking like this, and the way this case is going, I ain't never getting married !
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
I love a good fight.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons ! The loons ! They're welcoming us back.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
We didn't need dialogue. We had faces.
You talkin to me ?
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Stop makin noises like a husband.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Be all you can be.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
I bet you can squeal like a pig.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
The sun will come up tomorrow
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
No wire hangers, ever !
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Somebody stop me !
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
My heart is ever at your service.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Living, love and death are one thing, not divisive, not separated, not divorced, not in the field of time but it is completely a living, moving thing, indivisible. And that is immortal.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Bond. James Bond.
I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce ? The cuckoo clock.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
Gort ! Klaatu barada nikto !
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Children are all foreigners.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.