Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
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.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
The best way out is always through.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Do you want a leg or a breast ?
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people ?
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
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.
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
There's no place like home.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
But I would be proud.
To know me is to love me.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Roll with the punches.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Show me the money !
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
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.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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.
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die !
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
Whatever you are be a good one.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
It's good to be the king !
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
We must be the change we wish to see.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.