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Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.

John Wicker

Changes in life are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

Gail Sheehy

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard

Follow your dreams.

Unknown

For one person to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the last test and proof, the work for which all else is but preparation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Stephen Covey

Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.

Rick Blaine, Casablanca (1942)

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Dale Carnegie

Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Chinese Proverb

We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time

Jermaine Stewart

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

I know that I will die laughing.

Jeanne Calment

All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.

Anonymous

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

Thomas Edison

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Dennis Waitley

Love sees roses without thorns.

German Proverb

Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.

Calvin Coolidge

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

Federico Fellini

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Epictetus

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Norman Vincent Peale

Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.

General Peter Schoomaker

Snap out of it !

Loretta Castorini, Moonstruck (1987)

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.

Philip Armour

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

Leo Buscaglia

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Danny Thomas

I want to be alone.

Grusinskaya, Grand Hotel (1932)

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

H. Jackson Brown

This is the first day, of the rest of your life.

Unknown

Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

Jim Rohn

Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Jim Rohn

If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Mohandas Gandhi, Gandhi (1982)

You sing-a high.

Baravelli, Connie Bailey (1932)

Where there is a will, there is a way.

Unknown

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

We're on a mission from God.

Elwood Blues, The Blues Brothers (1980)

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.

Paul McCartney

You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.

Paul H. Dunn

You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.

Susan Podziba

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.

Michael Johnson

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Albert Einstein

Love as much as you can from wherever you are.

Elizabeth Ashley

Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Stephen Covey

Love is letting go of fear.

Gerald Jampolsky

Bitterness imprisons life, love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life, love empowers it. Bitterness sours life, love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life, love heals it. Bitterness blinds life, love anoints it's eyes.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.

Greg Anderson

Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.

Japanese Proverb

I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.

William Shakespeare

Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.

Swami Vivekananda

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Seneca

There is time for everything.

Thomas Edison

First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.

Denis Healey

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Anatole France

I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.

Abraham Lincoln

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?

Henry David Thoreau

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Warren Buffett

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

William James

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.

Swami Vivekananda

The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.

Jean Piaget

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Publilius Syrus

Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.

Laura Frith

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Sandy Wilson

Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

Thomas Edison

The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.

Unattributed

Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.

John Armstrong

Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.

Unknown

Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Swami Sivananda

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

W. Clement Stone

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Francis of Assisi

My mission was to take the invisible, the unloved and make them the heroes.

Ryan Murphy, @Golden Globes

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.

Thomas Edison

That love is all there is is all we know of love.

Emily Dickinson

Reach for the stars.

Unknown

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.

Marian Wright Edelman

Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.

Birke Baehr

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

Thomas Edison

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Conrad Hilton

To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Sugar Ray Robinson

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Erich Fromm