Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
To know me is to love me.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
These go to eleven.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or catholics.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
We’re alive! We can make a difference! We can turn this ship in the way we wanna go, man! Towards love, creating a healthy planet for all of us.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
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.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
I am your father.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
This too, shall pass.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Don't follow your dreams, chase them.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Reach for the stars.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
Living, love and death are one thing, not divisive, not separated, not divorced, not in the field of time but it is completely a living, moving thing, indivisible. And that is immortal.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Would you like to play a game ?
Love is the only rational act.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
You aren't too bright. I like that in a man.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
Would you like to come in ?
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
Come, let us make love deathless.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
There is time for everything.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
Bumper Sticker - Join the Army. See the world, travel to far away places, meet exotic people and kill them.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into !
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
They call it a "Royale with Cheese".
Our love is here to stay.