Famous Quotes & Sayings

Swami Vivekananda

I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am the Pure and Blessed One. We must reject all thoughts that assert to the contrary.

Peter Drucker

No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary human beings perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and to use each man's strength to help all the others perform. The purpose of an organization is to enable common men to do uncommon things.

Peter Drucker

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

Marlo Thomas

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.

Marjorie Holmes

A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Every obstacle in his journey became a milestone, an occasion for further triumph. We have a model in front of us now, a model who blazes our trail and gives us strength.

Mignon McLaughlin

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

John Ruskin

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Masashi Kishimoto

The weaker you are the louder you bark. -Tenten

Jane Austen

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

Michael Stipe

So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing.

Max Beerbohm

The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.

Pablo Neruda

This means that we have barely disembarked into life, that we've only just now been born, let's not fill our mouths with so many uncertain names, with so many sad labels, with so many pompous letters, with so much yours and mine, with so much signing of papers. I intend to confuse things, to unite them, make them new-born intermingle them, undress them, until the light of the world has the unity of the ocean, a generous wholeness, a fragrance alive and crackling.

John Ruskin

The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

Louis Kronenberger

He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.

Michel de Montaigne

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

Adrian Benepe

New Yorkers have been seeing Central Park in a new way, discovering the unique beauty that distinguishes the park during the winter.

William Story

But the gray and the cold are hauntedBy a beauty akin to pain, --By a sense of a something wanted,That never will come again.