Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
Well done is better than well said.
For with god all things are possible.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Love can be understood only from the inside, as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
Action is the antidote to despair.
My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
The dingo took my baby !
Live life to the fullest.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
If you didn't know me, would you think I was a stranger ?
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Security is a kind of death.
I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Funny like I'm a clown ? I amuse you ?
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
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.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Hard work pays off.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Gobble gobble, gobble gobble. We accept her. One of us, one of us.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
It's good to be the king !
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
Success is the child of audacity.
I'm melting ! Melting ! Oh, what a world ! What a world !
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.