Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
You see, Francois, marriage is a beautiful mistake which two people make together. But with you, Francois, I think it would be a mistake.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Love is a moment that lasts forever.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Attitude is everything.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
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.
They're here !
The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea.
Ability is sexless.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
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.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
All mankind love a lover.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Live with passion !
Not many people know it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
I'm Multi-Dimensional !
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Laughter is the best medicine.
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore !
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
From now on you will never be alone, even when we are separated, and even when death itself parts us, I shall remain with you.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations – it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
I'll remember you, honey. You're the one that got away.
In love beggar and king are equal.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Nobody puts baby in a corner.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Well done is better than well said.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
You're gonna need a bigger boat.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Well done is better than well said.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
What we've got here is failure to communicate.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.