Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
There's no crying in baseball !
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Love, two minds without a single thought.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
But, in the opinion of the court, you are not only sane but you're the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Georgia, love is for the very young.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Live life with passion.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
The dedicated doctor knows that he must be both scientist and humanitarian, his most agonizing decisions lie in the field of human relations.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
You only get out what you put in.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Love like there is no tomorrow.
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce ? The cuckoo clock.
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
Watch the skies, everywhere, keep looking ! Keep watching the skies !
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
How many doctors does it take to screw in a light bulb ? That depends on whether it has medical insurance.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Fiddle-dee-dee.
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
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.
All mankind love a lover.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf ? Didn't you hear 'em ? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.