Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face.
A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Carpe diem.
You always succeed in producing a result.
Realize that you are capable of working miracles of your own making. Remember that opportunities have a reason for knocking on your door, and the right ones are there for the taking.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Oh, it was nobody's fault but my own. I was looking up. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You were there.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
It's good to be the king !
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
One million dollars !
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Okay, but I get to be on top.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Never complain about what you permit.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
They alone live, who live for others.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
You're as old as you behave.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
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.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
As a writer, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories, and I give them money.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Live with passion.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Mama, face it. I was the slut of all time.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
After your jump, the net appears.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Look, Daddy. Teacher says, Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.