Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Anything is possible.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Bring out the gimp.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Seize the day.
His eyes have made love to me all evening.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
My love for you is a journey, starting at forever, and ending at never.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
You are what you think you are.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
If you would create something, you must be something.
Experience is the best teacher.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia, said to me once, take your broken heart, make it into art.
The heart that loves is always young.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Never say more than is necessary.
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
The best way out is always through.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Do you think that there is a word that contains all of the vowels? Unquestionably.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
We can only learn to love by loving.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Increase the chances of reaching your goals by working at them gradually. The very best you can do is all that is asked of you.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.