"Famous Quotes By Topic"
—Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), 1st Prime Minister of India “The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.” —Ayn Rand (1905-1982), writer, philosopher “To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom...Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), essayist, poet, philosopher “Live all you can - it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?” —Henry James (1843-1916), author, critic “Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the skies.” —Garth Brooks “"life is a white canvas, so many possibilities"” —Anonymous, famous quotes “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” —Japanese Proverb “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” —Helen Keller (1880-1968) “You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.” —Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), comic actor, filmmaker, writer “Go confidently in the direction of our dreams! Live the life you've imagined.” —Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), philosopher, writer “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), philosopher, scientist, author “I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this: Dream a great dream.” —John A. Appleman “A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.” —John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), 35th U.S. President “There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why...I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?” —Robert Francis Kennedy (1925-1968), U.S. Attorney General “All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them.” —Walt Disney (1901-1966), animator, film producer “I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” —William Butler Yeats (1865-1939, poet, Nobel Prize winner “Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.” —William Shakespeare (1564-1616), dramatist, poet “Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.” —George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), playwright “Whatever you are, be a good one.” —Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), 16th U.S. President “Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise - then you will discover the fullness of your life.” —David Steindl-Rast “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did so. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” —Mark Twain (1835-1910), humorist, essayist, novelist “The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.” —Arthur C. Clarke (b. 1917), science-fiction author, inventor “To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.” —Bernard Edmonds “Nothing happens unless first a dream.” —Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), poet, historian, novelist “The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.” —Colin Wilson (b. 1931), novelist “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” —Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), poet, author “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” —Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), U.S. First Lady
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