Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.

Alanis Morissette

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.

Alan Watts

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Audre Lorde

Who I am is what fulfills me and fulfills the vision I have of the world.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.

Denis Waitley

Self-esteem is felt even though you may not have done anything yet, but just feel the capability for it.

Denis Waitley

Positive self-esteem is the quality of simply saying thank you and accepting any value that is attributed to you by others.

Denis Waitley

The stretch of the limousine usually is inversely proportional to the self esteem of the person riding in it.

Denis Waitley

Self-esteem is that deep-down inside the skin feeling you have of your own self-worth.

Charles Caleb Colton

For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few.

Charles Caleb Colton

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.

Charles Caleb Colton

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.

Charles Dickens

Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?

Charles Dickens

I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.

Charles Stross

There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet?

Denis Waitley

Losers fix the blame; winners fix what caused the problem.

Alberto Fujimori

With this peace, there is no loser but (only) winners,

Robert Fick

You don't want to be a loser and a winner at the same time, I guess.

Shari Roessler

There was just no loser tonight. It was so well fought, end to end. They'd come from behind, we'd come from behind. I don't know ... I'm speechless.

Ted Levy

They're all positioned quite well. There are no losers in this battle.

David Millar

I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day.

David Korten

So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.

William Ward

The winner persistently programs his pluses; the loser mournfully magnifies his minuses.

Barbara Park

Our nannas are losers.