Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meredith Vieira

You will throughout your life have people who will tell you that you're not good enough. Maybe they're jealous. Maybe they think you aren't. Maybe they've had a bad day. But ultimately you have to believe in yourself.

Martina Hingis

I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.

Madonna Ciccone

I laugh at myself. I don't take myself completely seriously. I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to... you have to laugh, especially at yourself.

Lucille Ball

Love yourself first and everything falls into line.

Liza Minnelli

Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream.

Michael Dell

Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.

Mia Hamm

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

Mia Hamm

I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger.

Michel de Montaigne

The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.

Ayn Rand

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Calvin Coolidge

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

Richard G. Scott

The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life.

Sydney Smith

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

Douglas Adams

And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.

Douglas Adams

I don't go to mythical places with strange men.

Douglas Adams

The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing...' twenty minutes after admitting he'd lost the argument.

Douglas Adams

"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man, "but the Babel Fish is a dead give-away, isn't it? It proves You exist, and so therefore You don't. Q.E.D." "Oh, I hadn't thought of that," says God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

Dorothea Dix

A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.

Ken Blanchard

Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.

Paul Klee

In my productive activity, every time a type grows beyond the stage of its genesis, and I have about reached the goal, the intensity gets lost very quickly, and I have to look for new ways.

Jonah Lomu

I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on.

Jon Stewart

It really does seem that the Democrat's problem isn't that they're calling for timetables - it's that they're calling them 'timetables'. You're up against Bush and the Republicans - you've got to bring some zing. Don't call them timetables - call them 'Patriot Dates', 'Freedom Deadlines'... 'Glory Goals'.

Kate Winslet

I have just wanted to be an actress. That's always been my goal. I didn't want to be famous.

Katherine Center

My goal is to try to be as happy as I can - going through every day just as it is.

Jim Yong Kim

Why is it that when it comes to our most cherished social goal [health care], we not only tolerate poor execution, sometimes we even celebrate it?

Jim McCrery

Reducing health costs and increasing access to health care are worthy goals that every Member of Congress should support.

Eric Taylor

Success is not a goal, it's a byproduct.