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Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.

God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.

Bambara Proverb

If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.

Unknown

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Plato

One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.

Norman Vincent Peale

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

Confucius

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.

Sophocles

What is essential is invisible to the eyes.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.

Napoleon Hill

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.

Seneca

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?

Robert H. Schuller

People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

Hedy Lamarr

Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.

Chinese Proverb

From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.

Yiddish Proverb

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.

Norman Vincent Peale

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Dennis Waitley

The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.

Anonymous

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

James F. Bymes

Experience is the best teacher.

Proverb

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.

Unknown

Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.

Thomas Edison

Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

Rosemonde Gerard

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Marilyn Vos Savant

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes

Zig Ziglar

Here's Johnny !

Jack Torrance, The Shining (1980)

Friendship is not born of words alone.

Armenian Proverb

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

Lee Iacocca

Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Zig Ziglar

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle

Gloria Steinhem

Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Alice Meynell

The only reason I would take up jogging would be to hear heavy breathing again.

Erma Bombeck

It is love alone that gives worth to all things.

Santa Teresa de Jesus

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Anonymous

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

My biological clock is ticking like this, and the way this case is going, I ain't never getting married !

Mona Lisa Vito, My Cousin Vinny (1992)

You are what you think about all day long.

Robert Schuller

It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.

Swami Vivekananda

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.

Zen Proverb

Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.

Thomas Carlyle

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

James Anthony Froude

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.

W. R. Inge

Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.

W. Clement Stone

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Emily Dickinson

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

Richard Bach

Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.

Melba Colgrove

In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.

Elizabeth Ashley

How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.

Anonymous

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

Pogo

Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !

Earl Nightingale

Winners never quit and quitters never win !

Vince Lombardi

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Napoleon Hill

Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !

John McClane, Die Hard (1988)

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.

Willis Whitney

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Robert H. Schuller

Kindness is always fashionable.

America E. Barr

Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.

Karen Casey

Happy wife, happy life.

Jeff Allen

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.

Suellen Fried

Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".

Jim Rohn

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is smiling on the inside and out.

Jennifer Wilson

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.

Bruce Lee

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Zig Ziglar

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.

Jacques Benigne Bossuel

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

Red Auerbach

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.

Norma Desmond, Sunset Blvd (1950)

Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Robert H. Schuller

Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.

Swami Vivekananda

You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.

Earl Nightingale

Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who stops being better stops being good.

Oliver Cromwell

I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.

Dixon Steele, In A Lonely Place (1950)

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Art Linkletter

Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.

David Farragut

Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !

Cloakroom Girl, Maudie Triplett (1932)

All progress occurs because people dare to be different

Harry Milner

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

John Davidson Rockefeller