Memorable 1950s Quotes

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"We need creativity in order to break free from the tyranny of tradition."
Richard Florida
"Give me liberty or give me a break!"
Lily Tomlin
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude."
William James
"I've seen the future, and it is very much like the present, only longer."
Dan Quayle
"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different."
Coco Chanel
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
Dale Carnegie
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
Theodore Roosevelt
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"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."
Albert Einstein
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
Peter Drucker
"You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."
Christopher Columbus
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
Alice Walker
"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."
Wayne Gretzky
"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."
Albert Einstein
"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."
Colin R. Davis
"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do."
Tim Ferriss
"If you're going through hell, keep going."
Winston Churchill
"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
Maya Angelou
"The grass is greener on the other side of the fence."
Unknown
"I knew I had to put on a show, but I didn’t really know how to get in touch with the audience."
Sandy Koufax
"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."
Harry S. Truman
"We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak."
Alan Dundes
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"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
Albert Einstein
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat."
Winston Churchill
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Oscar Wilde
"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Everything you can imagine is real."
Pablo Picasso
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What we have to decide is how we are going to respond to this equation."
John F. Kennedy
"It is our choices, far more than our abilities, that show what we truly are."
J.K. Rowling
"I think that the team that has the best teamwork will win."
John Wooden
"There is nothing permanent except change."
Heraclitus
"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
John F. Kennedy
"We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of our lives is a miracle."
H.G. Wells
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts."
Ella Fitzgerald
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"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Dream big and dare to fail."
Norman Vaughan
"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone."
Reba McEntire
"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia."
Charles M. Schulz
"The 1950s were about seduction, the 1960s were about rebellion."
David Bowie
"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"
Steven Wright
"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."
Niccolò Machiavelli
"I think the 1950s was really the last decade when America believed in itself."
Wes Anderson
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
John Lennon
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
Confucius
"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart."
Helen Keller
"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."
Albert Einstein
"I don't want to be a flop. I don't want to be a failure; I want to be a legend."
Elvis Presley
"He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know."
Lao Tzu
"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."
Abraham Lincoln
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
Confucius
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
Mark Twain
"We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us."
Virginia Satir
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
Lao Tzu
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"It's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years."
Abraham Lincoln
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."
Dolly Parton
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."
Buddha
"An artist is not a special kind of person; rather, each person is a special kind of artist."
Anonymous
"I think we ought to take our courage and go, and if we fall, the world would still be better for it."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
John F. Kennedy
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
Helen Keller
"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
Confucius
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
Albert Einstein
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
Albert Einstein
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
Winston Churchill
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
William Bruce Cameron
"If you can dream it, you can do it."
Walt Disney
"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
Maya Angelou
"Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans."
John Lennon
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."
Dalai Lama
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
Henry David Thoreau
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
Wayne Gretzky
"There's no place like home."
Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
Jorge Luis Borges
"What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate."
Cool Hand Luke
"You don’t understand, I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender."
Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront
"Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn."
Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit."
Anne Frank
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Nelson Mandela
"The best way to predict your future is to create it."
Abraham Lincoln
"It’s not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."
Charles Spurgeon
"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
Dalai Lama
"Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!"
Auntie Mame
"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable."
James A. Garfield
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
"You can't blame gravity for falling in love."
Albert Einstein
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
John Lennon
"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
Charles M. Schulz
"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
Charlie Chaplin
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle
"Do one thing every day that scares you."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
Nelson Mandela
"Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about."
Marilyn Monroe
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
Robert Frost
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Steve Jobs
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