Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
Be the best that you can be.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
No matter where you go, there you are.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Love is a thing, well, it's kind of like quicksand. The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Hey, Bud, lets party !
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
Pay your taxes, mind your business and keep Will Smith’s wife’s name out of your (bleeping) mouth.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Happy wife, happy life.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Come, let us make love deathless.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
We'll always have Paris.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
You've got to ask yourself one question : Do I feel lucky ? Well, do ya, punk ?
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
Attica ! Attica !
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Be all you can be.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
You talkin to me ?
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.