Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Can you dig it ?
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Be all you can be.
I want the fairy tale.
You become what you think about.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
We must be the change we wish to see.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Great men are not always wise.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
My precious.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
Love is a moment that lasts forever.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Living, love and death are one thing, not divisive, not separated, not divorced, not in the field of time but it is completely a living, moving thing, indivisible. And that is immortal.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
Without a general an army is lost.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
How many doctors does it take to screw in a light bulb ? That depends on whether it has medical insurance.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
There's no crying in baseball !
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
We're sisters under the same mink.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Snakes ! Why did it have to be snakes ?
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
With my brains and your looks, we could go places.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
The dedicated doctor knows that he must be both scientist and humanitarian, his most agonizing decisions lie in the field of human relations.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.