Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Follow the money.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
You've got to ask yourself one question : Do I feel lucky ? Well, do ya, punk ?
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
We go together, Laurie. I don't know why. Maybe like guns and ammunition go together.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Happiness is a choice.
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
He who stops being better stops being good.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too !
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.
Bumper Sticker - Join the Army. See the world, travel to far away places, meet exotic people and kill them.
I think it pisses god off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
You always succeed in producing a result.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.
It's never too late.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
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.
To my big brother George, the richest man in town !
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
The loving are the daring.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
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.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Hunker down.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
Be who you are in every situation.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !