Famous quotes

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Henry David Thoreau, author (1817-1862)

Stephen Covey Inspiring Words

You give a man a fish, you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Human beings are not things needing to be motivated and controlled; they are four dimensional—body, mind, heart, and spirit.

The moment of making choice is the moment of truth!

Spiritual View of Life
First of all, you are dealing with the whole person. That includes the
person’s spirit or soul. You cannot separate their body or their mind or their heart from their spirit, because they are all so inter-related, and there is a synergistic relationship between all these four dimensions of our nature. Any attempt to compartmentalise will reduce that synergistic effect and it will have negative repercussions on your body, your mind, your heart, your emotions, your thinking
and so forth.

Another dimension would be that you are dealing with those principles that are universal and timeless.

Thirdly, spirituality deals with peace of conscience. Obeying or following your conscience, means that you are true to that which you have internalised as being right and this gives you tremendous tranquillity and courage.

Voice is unique personal significance—significance that is revealed as we face our greatest challenges and that makes us equal to them.
Dr. Stephen R. Covey, 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

Often we are so busy with sawing that we forget to shapen the saw.

If you want to make minor, incremental changes and improvements, work on practices, behavior or attitude. But if you want to make significant, quantum improvement, work on paradigms.

The more we use and magnify our present talents, the more talents we are given and the greater our capacity becomes.

Vision comes as people sense human need and respond to their conscience in trying to meet that need.

Instead of taking two watches, take compass. It is not important how fast you are moving, but where you are moving.

Scott Peck's Wisdom on Life

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult - once we truly understand and accept it - then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

Love is as love does. Love is an act of will--namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.
Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

If you expect another person to make you happy, you’ll be endlessly disappointed.

An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes. This unification of speaker and listener is actually and extension and enlargement of ourselves, and new knowledge is always gained from this. Moreover, since true listening involves bracketing, a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the other. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will fell less and less vulnerable and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the duet dance of love is begun again.

Ernest Hemingway Quotes

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Courage is grace under pressure.

"There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.

If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Never mistake motion for action.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Short Famous Quotes about Life

The heart is the birth of will.
Jenni Robison

Everything and everyone in your life is there by your choice.
Stephen C. Paul

Breathe Smile Be.
Hikamiko

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
George MacDonald

If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.
Ted Turner

When one teaches, two learn.
Robert Half

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.
Katherine Mansfield

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right.
Henry Ford

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.
Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.
Benjamin Franklin

Truth is one, sages call It by different names.
Rig Veda

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Dick Gregory

May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift

Life is a Strange School.
Earon Davis

Short Quotes from the Bible
As you think in your heart, so are you.
Proverbs 23:7

The truth shall make you free.
John 8:32

Let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.
1 John 3:18 NRSV

It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Acts xx. 35

Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Galatians 6:9

Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
Revelation 2:10

They that sow in tears shall reap joy.
Psalms 126:5

If God is for us, who can be against us.
Romans 8:31

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.
1 John iv. 18.

Study to be quiet, and to do your own business.
1 Thessalonians 4:11

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.
Ecclesiastes v. 12

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work.
Chronicles 15:7

Famous Short Success Quotes

Attitude, Focus, Planning and Execution leads to success. Reading about famous success tips from famous folks provides some food for thought. What better way than short and memorable quotes.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a small step.
Lao Tzu (570-490 BC), Famous Inspirational quote by the Chinese Founder of Taoism.

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Alan Saporta, American Singer.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison. On inventing the electric bulb after several failed attempts.

I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.
Julius Irving

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
David Frost

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
Anatole France

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein

You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Aristotle

All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Mark Twain

Good things, when short, are twice as good.
Gracian

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Bill Cosby

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas Jefferson

Thinking is the hardest work there is. That is why so few people engage in it.
Henry Ford

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein

Famous quotes about India

As India completes 60 years of independence, just wanted to share with you some famous quotes on India - from famous westerners. Ought to make Indians proud about their history and culture.

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made!
Albert Einstein

India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most astrictive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only!
Mark Twain

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.
Romain Rolland

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.
Deepak Chopra

The surgery of the ancient Indian physicians was bold and skilful. A special branch of surgery was dedicated to rhinoplasty or operations for improving deformed ears, noses and forming new ones, which European surgeons have now borrowed.
Sir W. Hunter (British Surgeon, 1718-1783)

If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.
Max Mueller

India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
Will Durant, American historian who wrote the best-seller "The Story of Philosophy."

There are some parts of the world that, once visited, get into your heart and won’t go. For me, India is such a place. When I first visited, I was stunned by the richness of the land, by its lush beauty and exotic architecture, by its ability to overload the senses with the pure, concentrated intensity of its colors, smells, tastes, and sounds. It was as if all my life I had been seeing the world in black and white and, when brought face-to-face with India, experienced everything re-rendered in brilliant technicolor.
Keith Bellows

India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.
Gary Wright

When I die India will be found engraved on my heart.
Queen Mary

It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it is not to end in the self-destruction of the human race. At this supremely dangerous moment in history, the only way of salvation for mankind is the Indian Way.
Dr Arnold Toynbee (British Historian, 1889-1975

Brad Pitt on Marriage

Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.

Brad Pitt, Hollywood actor

Famous quote on building reputation

Driving past a McDonald’s one day, he (Warren Buffett) told his son Howie, “It takes twenty years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you’ll do things differently.
Warren Buffett, America's most famous investor

Quotable Quotes by Famous People

We know what we are, but not what we may be.

Shakespeare

In the end, will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King, JR.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Anonymous

Miss World Quotes

The best Miss World quotes from the world's most beautiful and famous women.

I don't think I'm the most beautiful girl in the world...I am the most beautiful girl here.

Catharina Lodders, 1962 Miss World after winning the Miss world crown

No, I did not. I was totally shocked when my name was announced as the name of Miss World 2005. In the weeks before the big final I knew that a few people considered me a favorite, including Global Beauties, but there is a huge gap between being a favorite and actually being the winner. But it was the most awesome and fulfilling surprise ever for me, I am enjoying every minute of it!

Unnur Birna, Miss World 2005, on being asked if she expected to win.

I always knew I would be successful. So there was no element of surprise.

I'm just average woman with average concerns.

I don't believe in proving a point to anybody. Nobody is that important.

Life will take its toll on all of us. We get injured, we get old. It's really sad to try to run away from these harsh realities of life. Looks are not everything. I am not going to look beautiful all the time.

Aishwarya, Miss World 1994

I did not hear my name at first, I just heard it echo around the room. I only knew it was me because nobody else moved! Then it all came true “It is wonderful to know that so many people voted for me in the text vote and put me through to the top two in Northern Europe. I was pleased to win the title of Miss World Northern Europe. Then to win Miss World is incredible. I just feel wonderful. It came as a big shock but the feeling is incredible. I am numb.

Favorite Quote:
You are what you do or You are what you make.

Unnur Birna Vilhjalmsdottir, Miss World 2005

The Miss World crown is an immense responsibility. I'm looking forward to every bit of it.

Priyanka Chopra, 2000

You also have to remember you know that you're a 'celebrity', for want of a better word, People don't have to care what you're doing or look up to you or want to emulate you, admire you or all of that. It is a tremendous gift and a privilege and I think that you have a responsibility if you find yourself in that position because, remember, you know you did a number of things to put yourself in that position. So having made your bed, you must now find a way to lie down in it. I believe that.

Cindy Breakspeare, Jamaica, Miss World 1976

I hope to represent the women of the world in a good way. I wish people in the world would be more respectful to each other.

Azra Akin, Turkey, Miss World 2002

I am so happy. It's a wonderful feeling and it’s indescribable ..… I have made history .. Black is beautiful.

Agbani Darego, NIgeria, Miss World 2001

I could see the amazed look on their faces when they announced my name.They were jumping up and down punching the air with joy. I don't know who was more happy - them or me.

Rosanna Davison, Ireland, Miss World 2003, referring to the joy of her parents.

The fact that I am the first Miss World to be decided by a global vote makes this award unbelievably precious. I will cherish the memories of tonight. Now that I have become a genuine world ambassador I intend to do everything in my power to promote the good causes that have been the driving force for Miss World for over half a century. I only hope that I can do the job with the dignity and panache that Rosanna Davison has done for the last year.

Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia, Peru, Miss World 2004

Hollywood Celebrity Quotes

I know I have a love handle or two, but I'm lucky that at this stage in my career, it's not hurting the work I do. And my wife loves the extra meat on me.

John Travolta
If he wants a job in Hollywood I could get him to play Terminator 4.

Arnold Schwarzenegger to Tony Blair

Famous Quotes on Money

Money is like manure, it should be spread around.

Brooke Astor, the multimillionaire Manhattan socialite.

Famous Quotes by Famous People

If not us, who? If not now, when?

Kennedy, John F.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

Henry Ford (1863-1947)

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

George Burns (1896-1996)

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), on his failed attempts to invent the electric bulb.

Don't be so humble - you are not that great.

Golda Meir (1898-1978)

If a man does his best, what else is there?

General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

Do, or do not. There is no try.

Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Emile Zola (1840-1902)

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Rene Descartes, mathematician, (1596-1650)

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Oscar Wilde, author, (1854-1900)

A collection of the best famous quotes by famous people that is bound to inspire you.

Best Famous Love Quotes

If you love something, set it free; if it comes backs it's yours, if it doesn't, it never was.

Richard Bach, author of Illusions and Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Kahlil Gibran, 20th Century Lebanese poet

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

Jiddu Krishnamurti, 20th Century Messiah from India

It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is more painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let that person know how you feel.

Anonymous

Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?

Cinderella

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein, 20th Century Scientist

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost, well known American poet

You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without.

Anonymous

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

Janos Arnay



It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.



Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Christopher Marlowe, Playwright and contemporary of William Shakespeare



It is better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet



Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.



You know you are in lovewhen you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.


David Levesque

No one has ever loved anyone The way everyone wants to be loved.

Anonymous



Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, and the romance in a relationship and find out you still care for that person.



Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison



Never say good-bye if you still want to try, never give up if you still feel you can go on, never say you don't love a person anymore if you can't let go.

Anonymous

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Famous quote on Being Misunderstood

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882), Writer.

Prove to yourself First: Michael Jordan

There's a priority there. I have something to prove to myself first. Once I prove it to myself I can prove it to the public. I can prove it to the media. I can prove it to anyone else. But I need to prove it to myself first. If I can't prove it to myself, then I can't prove it to anyone else.

~ Michael Jordan, member of the U.S. Dream Team (Basketball) in the 1990s. Famous Quote by Michael Jordan

Luck favours the brave - Famous Positive Quote on Luck

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

People have been believing in Luck (Good and Bad) since the Stone Age. But, those who have been riding their luck are the brave ones, who take their chances, risk their fortunes and get on with doing challenging things in life.

The winners believe that efforts brings luck, the losers believe their Bad Luck stopped them from winning. It's just a question of Belief.

On which side are you?

Nothing can stop an idea whose time has come - Famous Positive and Inspiring quote

Victor Hugo, author of Les Misrables and The Hunch Back of Notre Dame

An oft-quoted famous positive quote, it's an inspiring quote. It just implores anyone with an idea to Just Do It. Do not hesitate, dilly dally or be in doubt when you have hit upon an idea. Gather the guts to overcome initial hesitations and criticisms from those around you, and launch the idea. Christopher Columbus did that. So did Google's founders.

If they can, so can you! Be Positive.