Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Every dog has his day.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
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.
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
We’re alive! We can make a difference! We can turn this ship in the way we wanna go, man! Towards love, creating a healthy planet for all of us.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Be all you can be.
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention.
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
You don't always have to win, but you do need to know what it takes to be a winner.
Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
What do you feel like doing tonight ?
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Hi, Curly, kill anyone today ?
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
I want the fairy tale.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
God doesn't make junk.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
The illiterate of the century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
I see dead people.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
To my big brother George, the richest man in town !
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
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.
Love may make the world go around, but it's laughter that keeps us from getting dizzy.
Don't ever give up.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
We'll always have Paris.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
I ain't so tough.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.