Best Quotes Around the World

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

You should never give up your inner self.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

‚Star Wars‘ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It’s what they want.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we’re going to reinvent the phone.

I never thought I’d land in pictures with a face like mine.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

I don’t want to impugn the motives of my colleagues, but my attitude is, speaking just for me, you either believe in border security or you don’t.

I don’t throw lavish parties or nothing like that – I just want a bed and a TV.

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it – but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority: and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting.

Some people are very good at being ‚stars‘ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Single life is so overrated.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

It’s a real strength for me that I’ve never minded the training process. It’s something I enjoy. I really like being in the gym or, certainly, on the field.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

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

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That’s the pitch. We’ll see.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Change alone is unchanging.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That’s why I started in with the props.

I’ve tried everything. I’ve done therapy, I’ve done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

The Ritz Hotel has never yet provided game of such wondrous flavor as the bird plucked and half-cooked over the small boys‘ camp fire.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel.

I don’t try to control my days.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.

We’ve never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

The ‚anti-globalisation movement‘ is the most significant proponent of globalisation – but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

When I was running training, we would fire a couple of leaders from every SEAL team because they couldn’t lead. And 99.9% of the time, it wasn’t a question of their ability – it was a question of their ability to listen.

I can make something magical and wonderful out of nothing.