Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
May the Force be with you.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Love is the only gold.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Obstacles are great incentives.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Without a general an army is lost.
Kindness is always fashionable.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
How do I look ?
We rob banks.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
God doesn't make junk.
Remove failure as an option.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
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.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
To my big brother George, the richest man in town !
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
I ain't so tough.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.