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Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.

Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.

Swami Vivekananda

It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted.

Linda Conway

The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.

Anonymous

No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.

Robert Half

Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?

Richard Bach

Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

Thomas Edison

There is no education like adversity.

Disraeli

Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.

Mark Twain

To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

One does evil enough when one does nothing good.

German Proverb

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

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.

James Thomas

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.

Winston Churchill

Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.

Unknown

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Oliver Barrett IV, Love Story (1970)

It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.

Anonymous

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

George William Curtis

The book you don't read cant help.

Jim Rohn

There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.

William Wordsworth

This is the first day, of the rest of your life.

Unknown

Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -

Kyle Chandler

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Louise Hay

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.

Charles M. Shultz

In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.

Norman Vincent Peale

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

J.A. Froude

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.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.

Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Henry Ford

We all go a little mad sometimes.

Norman Bates, Psycho (1960)

Get busy livin, or get busy dyin'.

Andy, The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Erich Fromm

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Robert F. Kennedy

A friend's love says. If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says, you'll never need anything, i'll be there.

Jimi Hollemans

Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.

Ovid

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Ralph Nader

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

Ability is sexless.

Christabel Pankhurst

This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.

Swami Vivekananda

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Keshavan Nair

Love as much as you can from wherever you are.

Elizabeth Ashley

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Helen Keller

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

If you wanna call me that, smile.

The Virginian, The Virginian (1929)

Face it girls, I'm older and I have more insurance.

Evelyn Couch, Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.

Lester Sumrall

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein

They say you were shot in the tabloids.

Nora Charles, Nick Charles (1934)

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Brian Tracy

And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.

Samuel Coleridge

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

Anthony Robbins

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.

Scott Hayden

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Joyce Brothers

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

Hugh Prather

A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.

Anonymous

They are able because they think they are able.

Virgil

Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.

Martha Washington

Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.

Michael Johnson

Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.

Unknown

Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.

Martin Buber

The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.

Victor Hugo

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Abraham Lincoln

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.

Ed Parker

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Anthony Robbins

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.

Kim Wilde

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

E. Joseph Cossman

My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

Benjamin Franklin

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.

Aldous Huxley

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

Stephen R. Covey

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

Sidonie Gabrielle

Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To God, there is no zero. I still exist.

Scott Carey, The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

Change comes from within.

Unknown

I know that I will die laughing.

Jeanne Calment

He that has done nothing has known nothing.

Thomas Carlyle

When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up

Jim Rohn

It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.

Suellen Fried

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Thomas Jefferson

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.

Rick Blaine, Casablanca (1942)

You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

Anonymous