Best Quotes Around the World

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

I’ve got a terrible memory; it’s probably because I’m always concentrating on what I’m doing now.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

If you don’t have sustainable energy, you have unsustainable energy. The fundamental value of a company like Tesla is the degree to which it accelerates the advent of sustainable energy faster than it would otherwise occur.

Our goal in the ’70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

I’ve done a number of Super Bowl ads. And that is the best advertising of the year. That is when people realize they’re going to be compared directly against other ads.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you’re the mayor. The bad news is, now you’re the mayor.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

I’m never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that’s been made from one of my books, I know that it isn’t going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I’ll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.

The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

My demo was terrible, I sounded like a chipmunk. I was so young.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Giving is true having.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

I think we are waiting for an e-book that even non-techies can be comfortable with. From my point of view, the biggest change is that I don’t have to spend most of the day printing out and packaging a manuscript. I think I almost miss that.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

History should be written as philosophy.

A person hears only what they understand.

My dancing is Hawaiian-inspired but I also get a little fresh when it comes to my faster songs.

This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it’s easy to establish a dialogue.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

Solitude is independence.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I’m tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It’s hilarious. So we decided that I’m going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.

Although designers continue to dream of ‚transparency‘ – technologies that just do their job without making their presence felt – both creators and audiences actually like technologies with ‚personality.‘

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

I always play women I would date.

It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

All great peoples are conservative.

I don’t think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I’m enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.