Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
I want the fairy tale.
Keep the Faith.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
There are simply too many notes.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Snap out of it !
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
You sing-a high.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
The dingo took my baby !
Sanctuary !
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
You know the difference between you and me ? I make this look good.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Why don't you come up sometime and see me ?
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
Begin with the end in mind.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
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.
Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Things do not change we change.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
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.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Shut up and deal.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Do you want a leg or a breast ?
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
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.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.