Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
A woman who is loved always has success.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Real love stories never have endings.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Can you dig it ?
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Never Quit.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Challenges come along inevitably. How you respond to them determines who you are - deep down inside - and everything you’re going to be.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
The best way out is always through.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
This is this.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
I know that I will die laughing.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
For with god all things are possible.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Well done is better than well said.
You become what you think about.
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
You must motivate yourself every day.
I don't know nothin 'bout birthin' babies.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
I don't give a shit.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
One million dollars !
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Success is a journey not a destination.
If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
I'm king of the world !
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.