Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

Katsuya Okada

We want to stress the importance of pension and child-care issues ... The Koizumi government cannot achieve these reforms. We need a change in government,

Andy Roxburgh

We want to stimulate, motivate and encourage the associations by inviting them to join the Charter, and then getting as much out of it as they can. UEFA will help them achieve their grassroots objectives.

Edith Wharton

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

David Trimble

As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud.

Bear Grylls

Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.

Arthur Scargill

I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.

Katherine Legge

We achieved what we needed to achieve, we finished the race and finished well but I'm a racer and you always want to do better. I made some mistakes but overall I have to be pleased. I think for me, the record is great but the less of a female novelty that this thing becomes, the better. I'm just trying to be a race car driver and do what these guys do.

Vyacheslav Lysakov

We achieved this by ourselves. No parties helped us.

Charles Dickens

I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven!

Charles Spurgeon

The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.

Alan Chambers

And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction. I find it a golden idol, honestly, where we have been hypocritical to ask people to resolve this issue in a way that we haven't encouraged other people with other struggles to resolve. I'm looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.

Alan Chambers

t's really an encouragement of discipleship, it looks like anything else that we're offering to anyone else, any other person struggling with any other issue in their life. It's about pursuing a relationship with Christ.

Alan Alda

Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.

Edith Schaeffer

Our personal afflictions involve the living God; the only way in which Satan can persecute or afflict God is through attacking the people of God. The only way we can have personal victory in the midst of these flying arrows raining down on us is to call upon the Lord for help. It is His strength, supplied to us in our weakness, that makes victory after victory possible.

Edith Sitwell

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

David Ricardo

If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn.

Frederic Bastiat

Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on.

Robert Brown

We're still a youngish program. We're having to grassroots our tennis. We're laying the groundwork and being patient.

Ed Perlmutter

They are the heart and soul of their communities. It's grassroots politics at its best.

Mark Rodgers

There's a heavy, heavy grassroots component. It's happening on a nationwide basis.

Roger Baldwin

With large numbers coming, we will support the grassroots organization within our normal programs.

Steve Levy

We want to make this a grassroots effort.

William Greene

We're a grassroots organization. We're not funded by big donors. If we're sending 2 to 3 million e-mails a week, paying a penny per e-mail will price us out.

John Linder

I have seen the times when the grassroots has moved the Congress. We listen way more often to our constituents than the lobbyists. And the grassroots are going to have to do it.

Cindy Sheehan

I kind of see their point that this was a grassroots thing that grew into a monster.

Robert Rich

This is a very grassroots movement. Most of my promoters are people like Allan who just want to help out.

Charles Stanley

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

Alan Clark

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

Mike Harris

We want them to understand we're here to help and do everything we can,

Javier Solana

We want to see how we can help organize the transfer.

Chogyam Trungpa

Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn't have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent.

Edith Wharton

Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.

Audrey Hepburn

If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm. As you get older you must remember you have a second hand. The first one is to help yourself. The second hand is to help others.

Arnold Palmer

I enjoyed the fans thoroughly, and they were always helpful. They were the reason that I tried so hard over the years.

Michael Musto

Pretending to be other people helped bring me out of my shell and shed my inhibitions.

Mike Richter

Thank you for inviting me here for Mark Messier night, sponsored by Kleenex.

Laura Stankiewicz

Vince Vaughn is very personable. He was just so comfortable on stage improving, inviting students on stage and interacting with the audience.

Joan Baez

I was going to say thank you for inviting me but I already had my plane ticket.

Kevin Russell

How many people did you say you were inviting to dinner?

Emma Roberts

What is Twitter?! I don't know what Twitter is! Everyone keeps inviting me to Twitter and everyone's going on about twittering and tweeting and this whole thing, and I just don't understand it.

Nacho Figueras

Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.

Gloria Steinem

Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them.

Audre Lorde

When we define ourselves, when I define myself, the place in which I am like you and the place in which I am not like you, I'm not excluding you from the joining - I'm broadening the joining.

Noel Redding

The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.

Alan Keyes

Would you join me in repudiating that kind of racial slur, to apologize?

Tim O'Brien

With no draft, the only people who went to war were those who wanted to, or at least those who wanted to join the military.

Stephen Kinzer

As recently as the 1970s, some Pashtun leaders in Afghanistan were pushing to create a new state, Pashtunistan, by joining with Pashtuns in Pakistan.

Sgt. Frevola

They spent most of their time in one particular part of the store, so we would like to look into that and see if they had cased the joint earlier.

S. Walker

They said I have a separated joint in my left shoulder,

Jason Miller

They're on board. They just are not able to join us today.

Tom Nutten

It was dislocated and the whole joint was torn to pieces. But I kept playing on it.

Nick Woodman

If I'm a content creator, and I get recognition for my work, that's going to motivate me to spend even more time on my next production and make it even better.

Kennan Killeen

This motivates us to get it going and not feel this way again.

Jimmy Johnson

It was frustrating. It's only going to motivate us to come back stronger this year.

Chad Hedrick

Something like this isn't what motivates me. As soon as I get on the ice, it's business. I'm not out here playing around.

Drew Gooden

Zach and me are friends and he was going at me so I had to go back at him. It motivated me and I got up.

Faith Ford

To do my show, I'm always in every scene and it's very physical comedy, and even to motivate to want to work at all when I'm off is very challenging.

Gary King

Everything was real, it motivated me to keep a positive attitude.

Ron Gardenhire

Whatever you can do to motivate yourself, do it at this time of year.

Fred Ross

We showed that to our kids. We use whatever we can to motivate them.