Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brett Favre

Most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.

Ben Okri

We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this is the time to dream The best dream of them all.

Barbara Kingsolver

The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Babe Ruth

If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot.

Augustine Birrell

Is this true or only clever?

Augustus Hare

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.

Auguste Rodin

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Ayrton Senna

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

Ayn Rand

Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!

Burton Cummings

I sing in key, thank you very much.

Diane Keaton

That's what I learned. I learned I couldn't shed light on love other than to feel its comings and goings and be grateful.

Daniel Defoe

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

Anne Frank

People who give will never be poor.

Simone Weil

Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

Sri Chinmoy

Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life- in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.

Ruth Benedict

Virtue begins when we dedicate ourselves actively to the job of gratitude.

Thomas Merton

Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Make-up? What happened? You look almost female." "Thanks. You look almost straight.

Ayn Rand

You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You'll accept such gratitude as the tenants might feel. And I - I'll take what nobody can give a man, except himself. I will have built Cortlandt. - Howard Roark

Arundhati Roy

Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by what it gives. And powerlessness reaffirmed not just by the helplessness of those who have lost, but also by the gratitude of those who have (or think they have) gained.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

To be sure, God shall call you, and us, only at the hour that God has chosen. Until that hour, which lies in God's hand alone, we shall be protected even in the greatest danger; and from our gratitude for such protection ever new readiness surely arises for the final call

Dean Koontz

The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can't get off your knees for a long time, you're driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss.

Bob Dylan

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

Brene Brown

When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

Charles Spurgeon

May gratitude to God permeate my entire life.

Charles Spurgeon

When joy and prayer are married, their first born child is gratitude.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.