Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
The Golden Globes are to the Oscars what Kim Kardashian is to Kate Middleton - a bit louder, a bit trashier, a bit drunker and more easily bought - allegedly!
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Fill your hands, you son-of-a-bitch !
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Fortune favors the brave.
My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
My heart is ever at your service.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
I don't know nothin 'bout birthin' babies.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
A friend's love says. If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says, you'll never need anything, i'll be there.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
How many doctors does it take to screw in a light bulb ? That depends on whether it has medical insurance.
Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
Truth fears no questions.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Rosebud.
He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people ?
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
God doesn't make junk.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
We rob banks.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
To infinity and beyond !
Don't dream it be it.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
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.
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Every dog has his day.
Keep the Faith.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.