Famous Quotes

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

~ Robert H. Schuller

Truth builds trust.

~ Marilyn Suttle

Here lies one whose name was writ on water.

~ John Keats

Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.

~ Thaddeus Of Vitovnica

Sometimes success isn't about making the right decision, it's more about making some decision.

~ Robin S. Sharma

I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I'm still here. I have a history of victory.

~ Steve Maraboli

A truth that no one knows is still the truth.

~ Sharon Shinn

If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.

~ Alan Bradley

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

~ Terry Brooks

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

~ Henry David Thoreau

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

~ Georgia O'keeffe

Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward.

~ Wil Wheaton

You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.

~ C.s. Lewis

The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.

~ Alfred Brendel

Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.

~ Jodi Picoult

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.

~ Gertrude Stein

I shut my eyes in order to see.

~ Paul Gauguin

There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation.

~ Kirk Cameron

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

~ Patti Smith

Never miss an opportunity to show your love, especially to those close to you, because we are always at our most cautious with them for fear of being hurt.

~ Paulo Coelho

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

~ Mark Twain

Seven years, Dawn. Working with the Slayer. Seeing my friends get more and more powerful... a witch. A demon. Hell, I could fit Oz in my shaving kit, but come a full moon, he had a wolfy mojo not to be messed with. Powerful, all of them. And I'm the guy who fixes the windows. They'll never know how tough it is, Dawnie, to be the one who isn't Chosen, to live so near the spotlight and never step in it. But I know. I see more than anybody realizes because nobody's watching me. I saw you last night, and I see you working here today. You're not special; you're extraordinary.

~ Joss Whedon

Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.

~ Richard P. Denney

It’s funny, for all it took was a broken heart and that alone was enough, enough for her to do everything she ever dreamed of.

~ Robert M. Drake

If I lived a million lives, I would've felt a million feelings and I still would've fallen a million times for you.

~ Robert M. Drake

Suddenly, everything was beautiful. The way she viewed the world was nothing more but a reflection of herself.

~ Robert M. Drake

In a strong relationship, you should love your companion more than you need them.

~ Steve Maraboli

It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old.

~ Jules Renard

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

~ Georgia O'keeffe

The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen

~ Stephen King

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. a

~ Martha Washington

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.

~ Aldo Leopold

The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them.

~ Steve Maraboli

Let us pick up our books and our pens,” I said. “They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

~ Malala Yousafzai

Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

~ Noam Chomsky

You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what to do.

~ John Williams

The wise warrior avoids the battle.

~ Sun Tzu

the moment you don't feel like praying, get on your knees. And the moment you don't feel like reading your bible, you'd better get that Book open.

~ Lori Wick