We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
Barack Obama

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
Jimi Hendrix

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Swami Vivekananda

The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.
Sun Tzu

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
Helen Keller

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Woody Allen

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
Jim Morrison

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
Steven Wright

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.
Jim Morrison

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
Saint Augustine

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
Martin Luther

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
Lewis Carroll

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.
Rodney Dangerfield

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
Alexander Pope

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost