Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
It's always too soon to quit !
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Think and grow rich.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
The best way out is always through.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
May the Force be with you.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
If you build it, he will come.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Attitude is everything.
Work is love made manifest.
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death !
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against ?
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
From now on you will never be alone, even when we are separated, and even when death itself parts us, I shall remain with you.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Be the best that you can be.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Well, nobody's perfect.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Love, two minds without a single thought.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Hey, lady !
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.