Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
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.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
I love you. I've loved you since the first moment I saw you. I guess maybe Ive even loved you before I saw you.
I want to be alone.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
Okay, but I get to be on top.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Say hello to my little friend !
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
You know, maybe I was wrong and luck is like love. You have to go all the way to find it.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
I know that I will die laughing.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Wouldja do me a favor, Harry ? Drop dead !
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Love is a fruit in season at all times.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce ? The cuckoo clock.
The calla lilies are in bloom again.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
You must motivate yourself every day.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
The giving of love is an education in itself.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
She's my sister ! She's my daughter !
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
Forget about it.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.