Popular Quotes Through Time

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun

"If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway."

If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

Don't be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don't let the bastards get you down.

The Normandy invasion was based on a deep-seated faith in the power of the Air Force in overwhelming numbers to intervene in the land battle ... making it possible for a small force of land troops to invade a continent.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

If heartaches was commercials, we'd all be on TV.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.

I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.