Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are made.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
The heart that loves is always young.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
I'm Multi-Dimensional !
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
Love is not selfish.
Do you want a leg or a breast ?
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Nothing succeeds like success.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
It's always too soon to quit !
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.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
We must be the change we wish to see.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
Love is perfect kindness
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
Face it girls, I'm older and I have more insurance.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
You're gonna need a bigger boat.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
You always succeed in producing a result.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool !
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Never complain about what you permit.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Love those who love you.
No wire hangers, ever !
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
We are all born for love, it is the principle existence and it's only end.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.