Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give pulse for pulse, breath for breath. Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
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.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
You are what you think about all day long.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
I know that I will die laughing.
I'm king of the world !
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Press forsake! Go ahead and press 'forsake now' !
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
It's like, I became such a good person, I almost forgot... I'm a world class liar, baby !
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf ? Didn't you hear 'em ? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
As if !
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Hasta la vista, baby. :
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Sometimes you gotta say, What the fuck.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
What's another word for thesaurus ?
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Wouldja do me a favor, Harry ? Drop dead !
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
I don't give a shit.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.