Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Collier

Mind is all that counts.

Robert Collier

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

Richard Baxter

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

Ruben Studdard

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

Ronaldinho

My game is based on improvisation. Often a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders.

William Lyon Phelps

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions. You must cultivate your mind if you wish to achieve enduring happiness.

Red Auerbach

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

Tucker Carlson

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

Anton LaVey

I have a passion for big cats, I like big snakes. There is something about snakes that is so wise, they have this uncanny perfection. I'd like to get inside their reptilian heads.

Robert Cormier

Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?

Richard Hooker

There is a wheel within a wheel; a secret sacred wheel of Providence (most visible in marriages), guided by His hand that allows not the race to the swift nor bread to the wise, nor good wives to good men: and He that can bring good out of evil (for mortals are blind to this reason) only knows why this blessing was denied to patient Job, to meek Moses, and to our as meek and patient Mr Hooker.

Richard Whately

When any person of really eminent virtue becomes the object of envy, the clamor and abuse by which he is assailed is but the sign and accompaniment of his success in doing service to the public. And if he is a truly wise man, he will take no more notice of it than the moon does of the howling of the dogs. Her only answer to them is to shine on.

Richelle Mead

Wise men don't need concrete answers. By definition, they need wisdom." ~ Geraki

William Mapother

Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power.

William Saroyan

I saw rich beggars and poor beggars, proud beggars and humble beggars, fat beggars and thin beggars, healthy beggars and sick beggars, whole beggars and crippled beggars, wise beggars and stupid beggars. I saw amateur beggars and professional beggars. A professional beggar is a beggar who begs for a living.

William Morris

Forgetfulness of grief I yet may gain;In some wise may come ending to my pain;It may be yet the Gods will have me glad!Yet, Love, I would that thee and pain I had!

William James

As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Warren Buffett

If you want to soar like an eagle in life, you can't be flocking with the turkeys.

Benjamin Franklin

Where carcasses are, eagles will gather, And where good laws are, much people flock thither

Niall Horan

I've got my old favorites like The Eagles and Bon Jovi.

Lou Reed

But I found tai chi when I was studying with Leung Shum, who teaches Eagle Claw and Wu Hao.

Jon Runyan

A lot of people need a right tackle. And, by the looks of it, the Eagles are going to need one. I don't know what they're going to do. I haven't heard from them.

Walter Jones

It's a great feeling. It's great to be on the other side. The Philadelphia Eagles have been to the big games, and that's where we're trying to get to. This was another stepping stone to where we're trying to go.

Chip Kelly

I'm not going to mortgage the Eagles' future for Marcus Mariota.

Chinua Achebe

Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.

English 16th Century Proverbs

Where the carcase is, there shall the eagles be gathered together.