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Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Alvin Toffler

But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.

Thomas Moore

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.

Anonymous

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Norman Vincent Peale

Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.

Val Saintsbury

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.

Unattributed

Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.

Reverend Sykes, To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)

My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.

Hebrew Proverb

Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.

Abraham Lincoln

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.

Margaret Thatcher

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.

Anonymous

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

John Lennon

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

Great oaks from little acorns grow

Proverb

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Benjamin Franklin

The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.

Plato

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Nikki Giovanni

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

Henry David Thoreau

In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.

John Armstrong

Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.

Dr. Phil

People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not

Earl Nightingale

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.

David Burns

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.

Tom Joad, The Grapes Of Wrath (1940)

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

William Ellery Channing

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas Henry Huxley

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Winston Churchill

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through the snow.

Jeff Valdez

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Hubert Humphrey

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.

Henry David Thoreau

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.

Zen Proverb

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

When the going gets tough the tough get going.

Joseph P. Kennedy

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

Margaret Thatcher

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

Robert H. Schuller

No involvement, no commitment.

Stephen Covey

As you think in your heart, so shall you be.

Proverb

What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Samuel Johnson

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep, the more I give to thee the more I have for both are infinite.

Shakespeare

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Albert Einstein

Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.

John Keating, Dead Poets Society (1989)

Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

Swami Vivekananda

Action is the antidote to despair.

Joan Baez

Love can be understood only from the inside, as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

Robert C. Solomon

Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Harvey Mackay

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Anthony Robbins

Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.

Ellie Andrews, It Happened One Night (1934)

Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.

Michael Polanyi

One does evil enough when one does nothing good.

German Proverb

We rob banks.

Clyde Barrow, Bonnie And Clyde (1967)

Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.

Greg Anderson

When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.

Helen Keller

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Anne Sophie Swetchine

Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.

William Shakespeare

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Margaret Thatcher

You know the difference between you and me ? I make this look good.

Agent J, Men In Black (1997)

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Pay your taxes, mind your business and keep Will Smith’s wife’s name out of your (bleeping) mouth.

Eddie Murphy, @Golden Globes

To err is human. To really screw up, you need a computer.

Paul R. Ehrlich

Do first things first, and second things not at all.

Peter F. Drucker

Never say die.

Proverb

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Dalai Lama

We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.

John W. Turk

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.

J.M. Power

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Winston Churchill

I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

Henry David Thoreau

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Steven Covey

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Judith Martin

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Anonymous

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Brian Tracy

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Napoleon Hill

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.

Muhammad Ali

After all, tomorrow is another day !

Scarlett O'Hara, Gone With The Wind (1939)

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

Love is the only gold.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.

Edgar J. Mohn

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

Winston Churchill

Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats

We have not yet begun to fight.

John Paul Jones

The illiterate of the century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Alvin Toffler

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Earl Nightingale

Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.

Zig Ziglar

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Helen Keller

There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun, a swiss watch and a woman from anywhere.

Cherry Valance, Red River (1948)

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.

Swami Vivekananda

Yes, it used to be beautiful -- what with the rackets, whoring, guns.

Lou Pascal, Atlantic City (1980)