Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
The best things in life are free.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Find the good -- and praise it.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Go ahead, make my day.
For with god all things are possible.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
The heart that loves is always young.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
I don't know nothin 'bout birthin' babies.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society -- outside of a kennel.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
The loving are the daring.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Say hello to my little friend !
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Practice makes perfect.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Never complain about what you permit.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
You complete me.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.