Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Tonight's weather forecast - dark, with continued darkness until morning.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
For with god all things are possible.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Every truth has four corners, as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
If I had more time, I'd write a shorter speech.
I'm melting ! Melting ! Oh, what a world ! What a world !
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
May you live all the days of your life.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Chance is the fool's name for fate.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
Life is what you make it.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
There is time for everything.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !
You had me at "hello".
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep, the more I give to thee the more I have for both are infinite.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
Sometimes the paths we take are long and hard, but remember, those are always the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
How many chiropractors does it take to change a light bulb ? Just one, but it requires 21 office visits and 4 X-rays.