Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
We didn't need dialogue. We had faces.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
What's meant to be will always find a way
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
The dingo took my baby !
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
After your jump, the net appears.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
We're sisters under the same mink.
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.
That dirty, double-crossin' rat !
Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into !
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Every human heart is human.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
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.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.