Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
Here's looking at you, kid.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
What is life without the radiance of love.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
You're as old as you behave.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
You're so money, and you don't even know it.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Gobble gobble, gobble gobble. We accept her. One of us, one of us.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun, a swiss watch and a woman from anywhere.
Know thyself.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Believe in yourself.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
You know, maybe I was wrong and luck is like love. You have to go all the way to find it.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
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.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Fill your hands, you son-of-a-bitch !
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
One, two, Freddy's coming for you.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
No man is wise enough by himself.
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
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.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
Mac, you ever been in love ?
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Where there is a will, there is a way.