Famous Quotes

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

~ Bob Marley

I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.

~ Stephen Chbosky

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

~ Bruce Lee

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

~ Ayn Rand

No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!

~ C. Joybell C.

Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.

~ Mitch Albom

Darling, when things go wrong in life, you lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail...

~ Sophie Kinsella

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it

~ Jodi Picoult

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

~ Bill Watterson

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

~ Paulo Coelho

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

~ Samuel Beckett

When you look for a man- what you want to look for is a man with the heart of a poor boy and the mind of a conqueror.

~ C. Joybell C.

Bermimpilah, karena Tuhan akan memeluk mimpi-mimpi itu.

~ Andrea Hirata

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour in his service. We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them. . . . Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they neglect their closets, and do not thoughtfully meditate on God's Word. They love the wheat, but they do not grind it; they would have the corn, but they will not go forth into the fields to gather it; the fruit hangs upon the tree, but they will not pluck it; the water flows at their feet, but they will not stoop to drink it. From such folly deliver us, O Lord. . . .

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You become what you think about all day long.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Things do not change, we change.

~ Henry David Thoreau

We are the music-makers,And we are the dreamers of dreams,Wandering by lone sea-breakers,And sitting by desolate streams.World-losers and world-forsakers,Upon whom the pale moon gleams;Yet we are the movers and shakers,Of the world forever, it seems.

~ Arthur O'shaughnessy

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

~ Jon Krakauer

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

~ Ronald Reagan

We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.

~ Martin Luther

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

~ Kurt Cobain

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.

~ Will Self

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

~ Stephen King

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

~ Malcolm X

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.

~ Fred Rogers

I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

~ Anaïs Nin

Maktub (It is written.)

~ Paulo Coelho

Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got.

~ Benjamin Hoff

If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. Nothing's off limits. But the endless possibility of the genre is a trap. It's easy to get distracted by the glittering props available to you and forget what you're supposed to be doing: telling a good story. Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

All great achievements require time.

~ Maya Angelou

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.

~ Daisaku Ikeda