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

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

Perfect love can not be without equality.

Scottish Proverb

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.

Anonymous

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

William Yeats

The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.

Leonard Nimoy

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Unknown

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

Anatole France

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

Sam Keen

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

Unattributed

Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.

Cathy Carlyle

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

Leon J. Suenes

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

John Davidson Rockefeller

Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.

Daniel Monroe Tuttle

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.

Albert Einstein

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

Thomas Jefferson

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.

Chinese Proverb

Yo, Adrian !

Rocky Balboa, Rocky (1976)

Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.

Lori Hard

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Bruce Barton

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Denis Diderot

We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.

Anonymous

Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.

Martin Buber

Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.

Norman Vincent Peale

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel.

Hyman Roth, The Godfather: Part II (1974)

Love is friendship set on fire.

Jeremy Taylor

I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.

Jessica Rabbit, Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Thornton Wilder

They are able because they think they are able.

Virgil

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

Brian Tracy

The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.

Foster's Law

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

Carl Jung

Happiness is a state of mind.

Unknown

One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

Calvin Coolidge

Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.

Michael Johnson

A simple I love you means more than money.

Frank Sinatra

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.

Booker T. Washington

No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.

William E. Gladstone

You're good, but you're going to be great.

Collin McCarty

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.

Scott Hayden

I am not a toy, I was made for soups, salads, maybe chili, and then the trash. Freedom !

Forky, Toy Story 4 (2019)

Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.

Anonymous

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

Richard M. Devos

When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.

Ronald Reagan

Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

Swami Vivekananda

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Lord Byron

It ain't over till it's over.

Yogi Berra

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Japanese Proverb

What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Ferris Bueller, Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

Winston Churchill

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

Ashleigh Brilliant

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

John Davidson Rockefeller

How do I look ?

Holly Golightly, Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961)

Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul

Les Hewitt

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Oscar Wilde

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

Eleanor Roosevelt

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.

David Burns

Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.

Martha Washington

Never stop dreaming.

Unknown

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Robert H. Schuller

If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.

Marie Osmond

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.

Anonymous

The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Charles Kingsley

The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.

Anonymous

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

Samuel Johnson

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.

Unknown

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

Here's looking at you, kid.

Rick Blaine, Casablanca (1942)

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia. To mistake an ordinary young man for a greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

H.L. Mencken

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?

Henry David Thoreau

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.

Dale Carnegie

Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.

Harvey Mackay

Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".

Kahlil Gibran

I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.

William Shedd

Be the ball.

Ty Webb, Caddyshack (1980)

There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.

Narrator, The Naked City (1948)

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?

Marian Wright Edelman

Live your dreams.

Les Brown

Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. If you kick'em all out, you'll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.

Meryl Streep, @Golden Globes

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Henry David Thoreau