Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.

C. S. Lewis

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

C. S. Lewis

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

C. S. Lewis

Jesus Christ did not say, 'Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.'

C. S. Lewis

The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.

C. S. Lewis

Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill tempered; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am.

C. S. Lewis

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

Carrie Fisher

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

Carrie Fisher

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'

Tina Brown

Give Obama a script he has made his own, and he is the motivational speaker to end all speakers. Tony Robbins cloned with Honest Abe.

Brooks Robinson

If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.

C. S. Lewis

Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you - the part that chooses - into something a little different than what it was before. Taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature.

C. S. Lewis

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Arsene Wenger

To achieve great things you have first to believe it.

Anthony Storr

Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed.

Bill Bowerman

If you have a body, you are an athlete!

Bill Bowerman

There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

Bill Bradley

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

Gwen Moore

I've been the co-chair of the Non-Partisan Women's Caucus and vice-chair for several years, taking a leadership role in this women's organization.

Cathy Rigby

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

Carrie Underwood

It's hard to look at things that are too close.

Bergen Evans

Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.

Bergen Evans

Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.

Bill Bradley

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Joe Mihalich

That whole team is on a mission. They have the senior leadership and they can win this.

Jessie Evans

We need to have more patience. We need better leadership ... especially from our perimeter players.