Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
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 !
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Get busy livin, or get busy dyin'.
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are made.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
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.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
Honesty is the best image.
This is nothing !
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Most appreciated after dinner speech - I'll pay the check.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
Must you flirt ?
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
They can because they think they can.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
They're called boobs, Ed.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Watch the skies, everywhere, keep looking ! Keep watching the skies !
Mr. Christian !
Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush.
What is it you want, Mary ? What do you want ? You want the moon ? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Love is a moment that lasts forever.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
The book you don't read cant help.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
After your jump, the net appears.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.