Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Wooden

The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.

Nelson Mandela

Exercise is the key not only to physical health but to peace of mind.

Nelson Mandela

As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

Nelson Mandela

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up

Nelson Mandela

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

Niccolo Machiavelli

Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

Nhat Hanh

Each minute we spend worrying about the future and regretting the past is a minute we miss in our appointment with life - a missed opportunity to engage life and to see that each moment gives us the chance to change for the better, to experience peace and joy.

Nhat Hanh

Sometimes we believe that happiness is not possible in the here and now, that we need a few more conditions to be happy. So we run toward the future to get the conditions we think are missing. But by doing so we sacrifice the present moment; we sacrifice true life.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Abraham Lincoln

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Alec Waugh

There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When I went to university, I finally got exposed to European films, and they had a strong impact on me. I felt those films had a lot of things to say that weren't getting expressed in the films I was used to seeing.

Alberto Juantorena

Be very strong... be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion.

Albert Einstein

Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore.

Ali Abdullah Saleh

French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.

Ali Babacan

Population is a strong driver of the economy as well as the quality of the labor force.

Algernon Blackwood

But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.

Aristotle

The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.

Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.

George Toups

You have to take care of these animals 365 days of the year. It's not just a Monday through Friday type of job.

David Starr Jordan

There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.

David Lynch

I quit smoking in December. I’m really depressed about it. I love smoking, I love fire, I miss lighting cigarettes. I like the whole thing about it, to me it turns into the artist’s life, and now people like Bloomberg have made animals out of smokers, and they think that if they stop smoking everyone will live forever.

Corey Feldman

I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.

Corey Feldman

I am an avid supporter of PETA and all animals as well as animal rights programs.

Confucius

Humankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.

Andy Lally

The choice to become vegetarian was purely for ethical reasons. Like most meat eaters, I was a little concerned with removing meat from my diet. Also, like most meat eaters, I was blind to the horrible ways animals are treated.