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Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.

It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.

Winston Churchill

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

George S. Patton

There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.

Anonymous

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

Vito Corleone, The Godfather (1972)

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Hubert Humphrey

Gort ! Klaatu barada nikto !

Helen Benson, The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)

All work is empty save when there is love.

Kahlil Gibran

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

Richard Bach

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

Robert H. Schuller

You see, Francois, marriage is a beautiful mistake which two people make together. But with you, Francois, I think it would be a mistake.

Mariette Colet, Trouble In Paradise (1932)

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Martin Luther King Jr.

We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.

Gerald J. Simmons

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

St. Clement

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

Horace

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun, a swiss watch and a woman from anywhere.

Cherry Valance, Red River (1948)

He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.

Japanese Proverb

Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.

Jose Incenerios

A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.

Anonymous

It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.

Nancy Banks-Smith

There is no beauty but the beauty of action.

Proverb

Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.

William Shakespeare

Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?

Larry Smith

Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Winston Churchill

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.

Leo Rosten

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Anais Nin

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

George Herbert

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Brian Tracy

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

David Starr Jordan

My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Abraham Lincoln

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Warren Buffett

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Anonymous

Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.

Mingjiao

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

Thomas Edison

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Love is friendship set on fire.

Jeremy Taylor

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take

John Davidson Rockefeller

Somebody stop me !

Stanley Ipkiss, The Mask (1994)

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

William Ellery Channing

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Emily Dickinson

When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.

Norman Vincent Peale

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

From now on you will never be alone, even when we are separated, and even when death itself parts us, I shall remain with you.

Ladislaus Boros

Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !

Taako

It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Samuel Johnson

If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Corinthians

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.

Marilyn Ferguson

Woody, I know what your problem is. You're just like me. Trash !

Forky, Toy Story 4 (2019)

What hump ?

Igor, Young Frankenstein (1974)

I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.

Madge Norwood, Cabin In the Cotton (1932)

Vegas, baby.

Trent, Swingers (1996)

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

Robert H. Schuller

Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.

Count Leon D'Algout, Ninotchka (1939)

Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.

Collin McCarty

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

Thomas Edison

Don't go through life, grow through life.

Eric Butterworth

The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.

Mike Litman

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Norman Vincent Peale

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.

Sophocles

We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

The dedicated doctor knows that he must be both scientist and humanitarian, his most agonizing decisions lie in the field of human relations.

David B. Allman

Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it

Unknown

Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

William Shakespeare

Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love

Makaino Kouji

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Unknown

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Dennis Waitley

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Bruce Lee

Till I loved, I never lived, enough.

Emily Dickinson

Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.

Swami Vivekananda

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Thornton Wilder

This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.

Swami Vivekananda

He who hesitates is lost.

Proverb

Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.

Vince Lombardi

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

Lou Holtz

Stop makin noises like a husband.

Vera, Detour (1945)

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !

Unknown

Adventure is worthwhile.

Amelia Earhart

Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

Robert H. Schuller

If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.

Francis Bacon