A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

The future for me is already a thing of the past -You were my first love and you will be my last

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?

To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead...

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.