Famous, Inspirational, Wisdom Quotes

1. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison
2. “Hitch your wagon to a star.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. “If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.” – Michelangelo
4. “I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.” – Mother Teresa
5. “If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison
6. “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
7. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss
8. “Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.” – Winston Churchill
9. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” – Henry David Thoreau
10. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt
11. “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” – Goethe
12. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
13. “Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.” – Eddie Rickenbacker
14. “Quit now, you’ll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you’ll be halfway there.” – David Zucker
15. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

- “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” – Bernard Meltzer

- “A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.” – Fr. Jerome Cummings

- “Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.” – Cindy Lew

- “Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.” – Jewish Saying

- “Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.” – Elbert Hubbard

- “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” – Aristotle

- “Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.” – Albert Camus

- “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

- “The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.” – Abraham Lincoln

- “Hold a true friend with both your hands.” – Nigerian Proverb

- “A faithful friend is the medicine of life.” – Apocrypha

- “Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.” – Unknown

- “Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.” – Claude Mermet

- “Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.” – Baltasar Gracian (1647)

- “Friendship needs no words…” – Dag Hammarskjold

- “Friends are the sunshine of life.” – John Hay (1871)

- “The best mirror is an old friend.” – George Herbert

- “I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport.”
- “I love snowboarding, but I would never want to do it competitively or at a professional level. Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion.”
- “I won’t quit skating until I am physically unable.”
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- “Dreams are answers to questions we haven’t yet figured out how to ask.” – X-Files

- “All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.” – Elias Canetti

- “Dreams are only thoughts you didn’t have time to think about during the day.” – Unknown

- “A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.” – The Talmud

- “Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.” – Marsha Norman

- “A dream has power to poison sleep.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Mutability”

- “Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.” – William Dement

- “Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.” – Edgar Cayce

- “I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.” – Rene Descartes, “Meditations on First Philosophy”

- “Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.” – Henri Amiel

- “There’s a long, long trail a-winding into the land of my dreams.” – Stoddard King, Jr.

- “Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher’s the poet’s equal there.” – E.M. Cioran, The Tempation to Exist

- “Dreams digest the meals that are our days.” – Astrid Alauda, Dyspeptic Enlightenment

- “Pay attention to your dreams – God’s angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep.” – The Angels’ Little Instruction Book, Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

- “One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.” – Evelyn Waugh

- “Dreams say what they mean, but they don’t say it in daytime language.” – Gail Godwin

- “Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.” – Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence

- “Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way.” – Vivian Mercer

- “Dreams are free, so free your dreams.” – Astrid Alauda

- “I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.” – Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

- “For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.” – Samuel Lover, Rory O’ More

- “I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I’m going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.”
- “I like going everywhere. And I love starting new things.”
- “I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.”
- “I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch.”
- “I think Shrek makes an effect in older people. And there are many things in the movie that you saw that are not for kids. Kids would not understand certain things.”
- “I’ve never worried about what audiences would accept or had a game plan regarding the career. I never had an idea of how I should look to my fans or anybody else.”

- “If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn’t happen with dogs. They’re different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move.”

- “It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.”

- “It’s a character that I always found really likable. I’m fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people.”

- “Melanie is more of a disciplinarian with the little girl than me, probably because it’s my first baby. She gets everything easy from Papa. I am more weak. She takes advantage of me.”

- “There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.”

- “We are now integrated into American society and I don’t like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it’s going to pass. It’s not like that anymore.”

- “We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.” – Maya Angelou
- “My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.” – Maya Angelou
- “One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” – Maya Angelou

- “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” – Maya Angelou

- “One man with courage is a majority.” – Thomas Jefferson

- “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” – Albert Einstein

- “Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.” – Ronald Reagan

- “There are no easy answers’ but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” – Ronald Reagan

- “You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence.” – Abraham Lincoln

- “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill

- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

- “Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” – Winston Churchill

- “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain

- “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” – Mark Twain

- “Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.” – John Wooden

- “Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?” – William Shakespeare

- “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” – C. S. Lewis

- “How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.” – Benjamin Franklin

- “Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” – John F. Kennedy

- “Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.”
- “I don’t care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.”
- “I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.”
- “Many will call me an adventurer – and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.”
- “Silence is argument carried out by other means.”
- “The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.”
- “Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.”

- “A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.”
- “A revolution is not a bed of roses.”
- “Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.”
- “How can we help President Obama?”
- “I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.”
- “I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.”
- “I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.”
- “I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.”

- “I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.”

- “I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.”

- “I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.”

- “I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.”

- “Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.”

- “More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.”

- “No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!”

- “North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.”

- “The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.”

- “The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.”

- “The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.”

- “They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?”

- “Arizona’s forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot wildfire crews in March rather than April, in order to better prepare for the expected fires in northern Arizona.” – Rick Renzi

- “Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.” – Phyllis Schlafly

- “By March ‘87 we’re down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we’re down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.” – Eddie Campbell

- “Don’t ever become a pessimist… a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.” – Robert A. Heinlein

- “Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866.” – Henry Morton Stanley

- “Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.” – Zhu Rongji

- “Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.” – Thomas Carlyle

- “Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.” – Lyman Abbott

- “Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.” – Joshua Chamberlain

- “For better or worse, I’ve always tried to march to my own drum and tell it like it is, while preserving some integrity and style. God, I’m fabulous!” – Michael Musto

- “For instance, I was a little surprised that the Shiites didn’t rise up against Saddam and the Baath party across most of the country when the Americans moved in March and April of 2003.” – Juan Cole

- “For me the march was a labor – a labor of love – but I was busy handing out flyers for the National Association of Black Social Workers, so I really wasn’t standing in the crowd listening and observing. I was busy.” – Andre Braugher

- “For myself, I believed that that 13th of March should see a fight to the finish, cost what it might! for if Bloemfontein was to be taken, it would only be over our dead bodies.” – Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

- “From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition.” – Scott Hamilton

- “Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism.” – Christian Lous Lange

- “Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.” – John Hannah

- “Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.” – Billy Joel

- “I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears.” – James Herriot

- “I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.” – George Armstrong Custer

- “And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love.”
- “And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn’t necessarily given to me, and that people didn’t necessarily think that I would be able to do.”
- “And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I’d be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that.”
- “At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.”

- “At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.”

- “Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question – I struggle with it morally.”

- “Hey, I’m a girl, and we like to play dress-up.”

- “I am human, and, yeah, I have very bad days.”

- “I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.”

- “I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.”

- “I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don’t look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don’t think of them as like Charlize Theron films.”

- “I guess there are very few actors that I’ve worked with that I would like to work with again. You never think you’ll have that chance and, if we didn’t do Italian Job together, there wouldn’t be another one that could be right.”

- “I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.”

- “I have been working a lot, and I like it. And you know, it’s hard for me not to. I guess I’ve been working a lot because I get to play with brilliant people.”

- “I have very talented people dress me and put my makeup on, stuff like that. But I do love that look, and I think it’s maybe because I grew up on that old glamour.”

- “I like what I do, and I’m very fortunate now to be in a very nice place. Which is that I don’t have to work anymore. So the work that I do now is purely because I really want to.”

- “I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.
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- “I mean, I’m new but I’ve always been very interested in film making process and I’ve been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested – that the producer part of me was natural.”

- “I only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind of actor who gives you the opportunity to really go there. And we really had to go there. I mean, we were both playing drunks.”

- “I think in life we want to challenge ourselves.”