Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Every human heart is human.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Action is the antidote to despair.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
You see, Francois, marriage is a beautiful mistake which two people make together. But with you, Francois, I think it would be a mistake.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Show me the money !
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
I see dead people.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
For with god all things are possible.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
The best way out is always through.
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
Love is the river of life in the world.
Happy wife, happy life.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
I think we deserve a break.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
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.
Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
I'm melting ! Melting ! Oh, what a world ! What a world !
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Hey, Bud, lets party !
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
The past does not equal the future.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
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.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Mama says, Stupid is as stupid does.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
Increase the chances of reaching your goals by working at them gradually. The very best you can do is all that is asked of you.
Reach for the stars.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.