Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Sanctuary !
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle I find it too confining.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
We must be the change we wish to see.
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Love is a verb.
Don't fear, just live right.
Get busy livin, or get busy dyin'.
We rob banks.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.
You complete me.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
I light my candle from their torches.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
You become what you think about.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
The best things in life are free.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
It's like, I became such a good person, I almost forgot... I'm a world class liar, baby !
Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Truth fears no questions.
What's meant to be will always find a way
The doctor should be opaque to his patients, and like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Love those who love you.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Believe in yourself.
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
If you build it, he will come.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Life is what you make it.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against ?
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
This is nothing !
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.