Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
A heart can be broken, but it keeps beating just the same.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Live life with passion.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
The world belongs to the energetic.
How do I look ?
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention.
You make me want to be a better man. As good as it gets.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
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.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
We all go a little mad sometimes.
You complete me.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
Don't just aspire to make a living. Aspire to make a difference.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
If it is to be it is up to me.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
I love a good fight.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
My heart is ever at your service.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
You're my Lassie come home.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.