Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
There is no education like adversity.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Remove failure as an option.
One million dollars !
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
Why don't you come up sometime and see me ?
The ready back gets all the loads.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
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'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
Well, it's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Believe in yourself.
My precious.
Don’t run away from things that are unpleasant in order to embrace things that are pleasant. Put your hands in the earth. Face the difficulties and grow new happiness.
Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
No man is wise enough by himself.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Love that is true never grows old.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.
Never complain about what you permit.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
For with god all things are possible.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Must you flirt ?
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people ?
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.