Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea.
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.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
Many hands make light work.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Mac, you ever been in love ?
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
I'm here to fight for truth, justice, and the american way.
The sun will come up tomorrow
Success is the child of audacity.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
We all go a little mad sometimes.
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
I'm an excellent driver.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
They are able because they think they are able.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Live your dreams.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
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 ?
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
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.
This is nothing !
Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
There are simply too many notes.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
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.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
A healthy outside starts from the inside
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
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.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
A boy's best friend is his mother.
Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too !
If there is a will, there is a way.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it's coming with all my heart.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid.
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce ? The cuckoo clock.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Love as much as you can from wherever you are.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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