Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
Anything is possible.
Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard. Now, what's all this crud about no movie tonight ?
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Somebody stop me !
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Woody, I know what your problem is. You're just like me. Trash !
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Title of newspaper article yesterday - Vandals made off with all toilet seats in the local precinct. Police have nothing to go on.
I am your number one fan.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through the snow.
Pay your taxes, mind your business and keep Will Smith’s wife’s name out of your (bleeping) mouth.
Shane ! Shane ! Come back !
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Must you flirt ?
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
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.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give pulse for pulse, breath for breath. Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago.
My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
Sometimes you gotta say, What the fuck.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Would you like to come in ?
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
You are what you think about all day long.
If you build it, he will come.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Here's looking at you, kid.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Love as much as you can from wherever you are.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Ideas... they have the power
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
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
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 become what you think about.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
It is only when we die each day to all that is old that there can be the new.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.