Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Never complain about what you permit.
My friends are my estate.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
You know the difference between you and me ? I make this look good.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
You create your reality.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
One man with courage is a majority.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
If you ever feel like having a child, go to a restaurant and sit next to one.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
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.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
Stella ! Hey, Stella !
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Do you like scary movies ?
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
If you build it, he will come.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Bitterness imprisons life, love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life, love empowers it. Bitterness sours life, love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life, love heals it. Bitterness blinds life, love anoints it's eyes.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
We're sisters under the same mink.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
The best way out is always through.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
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.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Hard work pays off.