Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
The past does not equal the future.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
If you build it, he will come.
Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. So, when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will.
Love, two minds without a single thought.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Think and grow rich.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
There is no education like adversity.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Union gives strength.
To know me is to love me.
Show me the money !
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Success is a journey not a destination.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Don't quit.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Follow the money.
The mark of a true doctor is usually illegible.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
We didn't land on plymouth rock. Plymouth rock landed on us !
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
We are all born for love, it is the principle existence and it's only end.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
I'm here to fight for truth, justice, and the american way.
When you shoot a mime, should you use blanks ?
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
We can only learn to love by loving.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
This is nothing !
You're good, you're very good.
They're here !
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.