Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or catholics.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Love that is true never grows old.
No wire hangers, ever !
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
What's meant to be will always find a way
Procrastination is the thief of time.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.
That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Can you dig it ?
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Fill your hands, you son-of-a-bitch !
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
The buck stops here.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
He who stops being better stops being good.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
You complete me.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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.
We can only learn to love by loving.
For one person to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the last test and proof, the work for which all else is but preparation.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Work is love made manifest.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Here's Johnny !
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Stop makin noises like a husband.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
We'll always have Paris.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.