Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Tracy

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

John Wooden

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Marianne Williamson

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Marianne Williamson

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

Mark Martin

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Mason Cooley

I would enjoy experiencing the hollowness of success at first- hand.

Mason Cooley

Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.

Mason Cooley

The wretchedness of failure is the great attraction of success.

Michael Grade

I sometimes say that success just happens. That's not true. You have to make it happen. When I make up my mind to do something, I make sure it happens. You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Greg Roberts

I want this to be a place of healing for each of these kids.

Louise Hay

Love is the answer to any sort of healing.

Adrienne Rich

When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

Laura Anne Gilman

Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.

L. Ron Hubbard

I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.

L. Ron Hubbard

The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.

Larry Niven

A civilization has the ethics it can afford

Joseph Pilates

Civilization impairs physical fitness.

Julius Nyerere

Having come into contact with a civilization which has over-emphasized the freedom of the individual, we are in fact faced with one of the big problems of Africa in the modern world. Our problem is just this: how to get the benefits of European society - benefits that have been brought about by an organization based upon the individual - and yet retain African's own structure of society in which the individual is a member of a kind of fellowship.

Oswald Spengler

Fortunately, at the last hour, there were always a few soldiers to save Civilization.

Paul Davies

We could tell them [alien civilization] things that we have discovered in the realm of mathematical physics, but there is stuff that I would like to know. There are some famous problems like how to bring gravitation and quantum physics together, the long-sought-after theory of quantum gravity. But it may be hard to understand the answer that comes back.