A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts. Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. I just know that, right now, the biggest record selling business there is rock and roll. I like Brando's acting… and James Dean… and Richard Widmark. Quite a few of 'em I like. I never expected to be anybody important. I'm never going to sing another song I don't believe in. I'm never going to make another picture I don't believe in. I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid. I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most. It just happened. I like to sing, and well, I just started singing and folks just started listening. I can't tell folks that I worked and learned and studied, and overcame disappointments, because I didn't. Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. Are you kidding? I didn't do anything but just jiggle. Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over. Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be juvenile delinquents, they're going to be delinquents if they hear Mother Goose rhymes. Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now. The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them. The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about. The image is one thing and the human being is another. it's very hard to live up to an image. There is a season for everything, patience will reward you and reveal all answers to your questions. To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave. Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me. When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed, has come true a hundred times.
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." "A man's true character comes out when he's drunk." "All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl." "Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
"I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have."
"I am at peace with God; my conflict is with man." "I am for people. I can't help it." "I am not religious in the dogmatic sense… I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything." "I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of an ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, of all of which I am the sum total." "I believe that faith is a precursor of all our ideas." "I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician." "In the end, everything is a gag." "Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot." "Look up to the sky, You'll never find rainbows, If you’re looking down." "My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist." "Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles." "The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury." Wars, conflict, it's all business. "One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero". Numbers sanctify. "We think too much and feel too little."
"A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard." "A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at." "A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough."
"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer." "Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own." "All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge." "Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it." "As you think, so shall you become." "Be happy, but never satisfied." "Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success." "Defeat is a state of mind, no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality." "Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence." "Do not fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail." "Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for a difficult on with the strength to endure it." "I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times." "I am not in this world to live up to your expectations and you are not in this world to live up to mine." "I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself." "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." "I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine." "If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of." "If you spend too much time thinking about a thing you will never get it done." "If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you." "In Life There are No Limits, Only Plateaus." "In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature." "It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials." "Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do." "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect." "Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier." "Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system." "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them." "Obey the principles without being bound by them." "Real living is living for others." "Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged." "The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering." "The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be." "The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems." "The More we value things, the less we value ourselves." "The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits." "The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." "To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities." "To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person." "Use no way as way, make no limitation, limitation." Also ReadQuotations / Quotes by famous personalities
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, But a wise man knows himself to be a fool." "A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow." "All scholars, lawyers, courtiers, gentlemen, They call false caterpillars and intend their death." "All that glisters is not gold."
"All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players." "Ambition should be made of sterner stuff." "And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything." "An overflow of good converts to bad." "Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." "Be patient, for the world is broad and wide." "Better a witty fool than a foolish wit." "Better three hours too soon than a minute too late." "Brevity is the soul of wit." "Certain, men should be what they seem." "Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once." "Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt i love." "Expectation is the root of all heartache." "Farewell, fair cruelty." "Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones." "Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer'd." "God has given you one face, and you make yourself another." "Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush, stumble and fall." "Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest." "Hell is empty and all the devils are here." "How oft when they were at the point of death have men been merry." "Let life be short: else shame will be too long." "I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow my own teaching." "If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die." "If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes’ palaces." "If you love and get hurt, love more. If you love more and hurt more, love even more. If you love even more and get hurt even more, love some more until it hurts no more." "Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven." "I have lived fourscore years and upward; I never heard a man of his place, gravity, and learning, so wide of his own respect." "I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is sad one." "I love thee, i love thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old." "In nature's infinite book of secrecy. A little I can read." "It is a wise father that knows his own child." "It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." "Let life be short, else shame will be too long." "Life is a shuttle." "Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man." "Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hours upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." "Listen to many, speak to a few." "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." "Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs." "Love is not love, Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove." "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." "Love me or hate me, both are in my favor; If you love me, I’ll always be in your heart; If you hate me, I’ll always be in your mind." "My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more i give to thee, The more i have, for both are infinite." "No legacy is so rich as honesty." "Nothing ventured, nothing gain." "Nothing will come of nothing." "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?" "Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt." "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." "Speak low, if you speak love." "Strong reasons make strong actions." "Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature." "Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds." "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." "The course of true love never did run smooth." "The earth has music for those who listen." "The object of art is to give life a shape." "The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together." "Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear." "Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing." "Time is very slow for those who wait. Very fast for those who are scared very long for those who lament. Very short for those who celebrate. But for those who love time is eternal." "To be, or not to be, that is the question." "To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first." "To do a great right do a little wrong." "To reach a great height, a person needs to have great depth." "To sleep, perchance to dream." "To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." "You say that you love the rain, but you open your umbrella when it rains. You say that you love the sun, but you find a shadow spot when the sun shines. You say that you love the wind, but you close your windows when wind blows. This is why i am afraid; you say that love me too." "Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea: Some lay in dead men's skulls; and, in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept, As 'twere in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems, Which woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by." "We know what we are, but know not what we may be." "When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry." "When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew." "Women may fall when there's no strength in men." "Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find."
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