Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
Georgia, love is for the very young.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
You sing-a high.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
The only reason I would take up jogging would be to hear heavy breathing again.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Bad news, compadres, this place is magic as hell.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
Where there is love there is life.
I am not a toy, I was made for soups, salads, maybe chili, and then the trash. Freedom !
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Sanctuary !
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Pay your taxes, mind your business and keep Will Smith’s wife’s name out of your (bleeping) mouth.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
She's my sister ! She's my daughter !
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Cross your bridges.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns !
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Live life with passion.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Success is the child of audacity.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Success is a journey not a destination.
Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
What is life without the radiance of love.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
The book you don't read cant help.