Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
I'll have what she's having.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
The best things in life are free.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
I'm melting ! Melting ! Oh, what a world ! What a world !
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
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.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
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.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Honesty is the best image.
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are made.
There's no place like home.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
I see dead people.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Success is the child of audacity.
Love is friendship set to music
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
Who's on first.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
To infinity and beyond !
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
If you wanna call me that, smile.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Here's looking at you, kid.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
The book you don't read cant help.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard. Now, what's all this crud about no movie tonight ?
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Success is never wondering what if.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
Truth fears no questions.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
I am big ! It's the pictures that got small.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
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.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
Your attitude determines your altitude.