Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you ?
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
Hi, Curly, kill anyone today ?
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
I think we deserve a break.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Forget about it.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Live life with passion.
The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Where there is love there is life.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
If you want to be successful, you have to make sacrifices.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape !
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
They're here !
Union gives strength.
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons ! The loons ! They're welcoming us back.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.