Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Here's looking at you, kid.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Where's the rest of me ?
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Our intentions create our reality.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
The unexamined life is not worth living.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia. To mistake an ordinary young man for a greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
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Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.
Give all to love.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Success is the child of audacity.
A heart as soft, a heart as kind, a heart as sound and free as in the whole world thou canst find that heart I'll give to thee.
There is no education like adversity.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
They may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom !
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
For Love is Immortality.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.