Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Baxter

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

Russell Banks

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

Ruben Studdard

People don't have to like or support you. So you always have to say thank you.

William Shockley

Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important to know if the experiment will yield new and probably enduring knowledge about nature. If it is likely to yield such knowledge, it is, in my opinion, good fundamental research; and this is more important than whether the motivation is purely aesthetic satisfaction on the part of the experimenter on the one hand or the improvement of the stability of a high-power transistor on the other.

Tucker Carlson

Ron Karenga wrote a book back in 1968, and in that book, he said that the reason, part of his motivation for starting Kwanzaa was because he felt that Christianity was the white man religion, and he didn't like Jews, and so he made up this lie. And he called it an African holiday because he was concerned that if he didn't call it an African holiday, that black Americans would not participate in it.

Tupac Shakur

You gotta find a way to survive cause they win when your soul dies.

Tupac Shakur

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

Vera Wang

The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.

Valentino Rossi

I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.

Samuel Johnson

If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.

W. E. B. Du Bois

The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.

Wendell Berry

We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

William P. Young

I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose to punish it; it's my joy to cure it.

Genghis Khan

Oh people, know that you have committed great sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you!

Mahatma Gandhi

I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.

Samuel Butler

Then spare the rod and spoil the child.

Pasquier Quesnel

There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.

Laird Barron

Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.

Robin Leach

The system is wrong where it rewards the lack of interest in work with money, so you don't have to work.

Walter Lippmann

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

Leo Tolstoy

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

Juvenal

The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?

Joel Osteen

Rewards await you if you stay steadfast in your faith.

John Gokongwei

Success doesn't happen overnight. It's the small successes achieved day by day that build a company. So, don't be impatient or focused on immediate financial rewards.

John Fowles

We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end.

Jon Stewart

You know if I had nickel for every time Bush has mentioned 9/11, I could raise enough reward money to go after Bin Laden.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.