My Favorite Quotable Quotes

t’s unfortunate that one journalist in Perth didn’t enjoy the show last night. Fortunately the other 18,272 fans in attendance did.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

 If money can’t buy love or happiness then what exactly is it’s purpose?

I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine.

Perfectionism is a prison from which only mediocrity escapes.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

We don’t live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.

The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.

You don’t need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.

Someone who loves you is someone who wants to give you what you want.

Most times, the person who you find it hardest to love is the one that needs it the most.

We can’t make people love us, but we can make sure that they don’t mistreat us.

Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

What other people think of you is none of your business.

Man’s mind stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

I don’t believe in fate; because I don’t like the idea that I am not in control of my life.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.

I will do today what others will not, so that I will have tomorrow what others have not.

Some men see things as they are and say, “Why?” I dream of things that never were and say, “Why not?”

Walk away from the 90% who will not and join the 10% who do.

You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.

If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don’t, you have achieved half your failure.

Vision without action is merely a fantasy. Action without vision will be eventually just another memory. Vision with action can change the world.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Sometimes absence is necessary to feel someone’s presence.

Just because it’s in print doesn’t mean it’s the gospel.

The real power of money is the power to give it away.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.

Success is the willingness to bear pain.

Don’t let other peoples opinion of you become your reality.

If you love someone, let them know, NOW. What are you waiting for?

I need to believe that something extraordinary is possible.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.

My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It’s the only thing I find interesting.

The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.

Progress is a nice word; but change is its motivator.

Who depends on another man’s table often dines late.

Innovation is the creation of the new or the re-arranging of the old in a new way.

Others see things as they are and wonder why; I see them as they are not and say why not?

If you love me, let me know. If not, please gently let me go.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

It’s only after you’ve lost everything, that you’re free to do anything.

Don’t pretend to be someone you’re not.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Nothing is impossible!

When tragedy strikes, first we grieve, then we learn, finally we change.

We have three choices about pain: ignore it; internalize it; grow from it.

We design our lives through the power of choices.

You don’t need to know all the answers. No one is smart enough to ask you all the questions.

For you to insult me, I must first value your opinion.

What inspires you to get things done?

Love is giving someone the power to destroy you… but trusting them not to.

Do what you love. Love what you do.

Work hard and you’ll get lucky.

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

Don’t think it can’t happen to you!

You won’t last if you’re not eating healthily.

No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.

If you want someone to smile at you, smile at them first!

True love never dies. It only gets stronger with time.

I’m not afraid of death and life after death.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

To some people, the impossible is impossible.

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

I learn by going where I have to go.

All I know about humor is that I don’t know anything about it.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

The market is a place where people with money meet people with experience.  The people with experience get the money while people with money get experience!

Forgiveness is only to those who sin unintentionally.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

If you really want to increase your success rate, then double your failure rate first.

What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.

The true test of character is … how we behave when we don’t know what to do.

Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top ups.

Always promise only what you can deliver.

Everything that has a beginning has an end.

Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

My principles mean more to me than any money or success.

A well-directed imagination is the source of great deeds.

Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one’s monopoly.

Dreams should become reality!

Patience, my dear, is a virtue…

Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa!

Live simply. Love generously. Care Deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to Me.

True love never dies. It only gets stronger with time.

I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.

If I never met you, I wouldn’t like you. If I didn’t like you, I wouldn’t love you. If I didn’t love you, I wouldn’t miss you. But I did, I do, and I will.

When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.

They can conquer who believe they can.

The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost.

Love is when you look into someone’s eyes, And see everything you need.

My love for you is a journey; Starting at forever, And ending at never.

I am very proud to be called a pig. It stands for pride, integrity and guts.

Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Do the right thing at the right time for the right reasons.

Your smile could change the world for someone else.

Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

Love that remains longest in your heart is the one that is not returned.

The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know.

Good humor makes all things tolerable.

Patience is the art of hoping.

If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you. If you really make them think, they’ll hate you.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.

Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same.

One man by himself is nothing. Two people who belong together make a world.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Inside the heart of each and every one of us there is a longing to be understood by someone who really cares. When a person is understood…

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

Love can make you do things that you never thought possible!

Lucky is the man who is the first love of a woman, but luckier is the woman who is the last love of a man.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

We begin to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.

True love is giving all you have to someone you know you’re going to lose.

If their smile warms your heart, embrace eases you, and kiss distills all wrong done to man, then you know that you have found true love.

A happy man marries the girl he loves; a happier man loves the girl he marries.

True love is knowing a person’s faults, And loving them even more for them.

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone; but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful, she is beautiful because you love her.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

I love the way you love me.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks about changing themselves.

Death is not the greatest loss in life, the greatest loss is what dies in us while we are still alive.

 As one person I cannot change the world, but I can change the world of one person.

When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself.

May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future!

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be touched. They must be felt with the heart.

People don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Be yourself and someone, somewhere will love you for who you really are.

Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

You’ve one advantage over everyone else in this world. You’re you and they’re not. Be proud of who you’re. There is nobody exactly like you.

Everything comes to him who waits.

If you don’t have a good memory then don’t lie!

Please don’t lie to me, unless you’re absolutely sure I’ll never find out the truth.

Every day is a test of my patience!