Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Happiness is a state of mind.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush.
Obstacles are great incentives.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
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.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Fortune favors the brave.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Love may make the world go around, but it's laughter that keeps us from getting dizzy.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Real love stories never have endings.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
You complete me.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
If I had more time, I'd write a shorter speech.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
You complete me.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Love is not selfish.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Mac, you ever been in love ?
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Jane. Tarzan. Jane. Tarzan.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
We will either find a way or make one.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
We didn't need dialogue. We had faces.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.