Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. So many look to eradicate fear from their lives, when that is an impossible task. You can certainly experience moments in absence of fear, however accept that fear will be with you whenever you are in the process of living creatively. The challenge is to go ahead regardless, simply notice the feeling and manage being courageous.

Mark Twain

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your own skin. When you achieve that as a natural state of "being", then you can finally look beyond yourself and fully contribute all your talents to the world.

Mark Twain

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

Mark Twain

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.

Leontyne Price

You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era; it should never leave you.

Oprah Winfrey

The best of times is now.

Oliver Goldsmith

Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.

Kelly Cutrone

In breaking away from the familiar and the expected, you'll be forced and privileged to face greater challenges, learn harder lessons, and really get to know yourself.

Sena Lund

I think it's a decent choice, and with the challenges Merck faces, they needed someone who knows the company and knows the environment,

Venus Williams

Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.

Satoru Iwata

If you do the same thing as others, it will wear you out. Nintendo is not good at competing so we always have to challenge the status quo by making something new, rather than competing in an existing market.

Sarah Polley

I'm never sure what's coming next, but I'm an open minded person and I welcome any challenge.

Walter Cronkite

When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.

Salman Rushdie

Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.

Rod Blagojevich

We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I intend to deliver it. ... I will govern as a reformer.

Vikas Swarup

My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.

Rufus Wainwright

I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.

Kevin Constantine

We took the least 20 banged up guys and put them on the ice. I don't really have any feelings about it at all. We needed to rest some guys and that's what we did.

Rob Brown

If we spent as much time feeling positive about getting older, as we do trying to stay young, how much different our lives would be.

Rebecca West

I am not so repelled by Communism: an element of Communism in politics is necessary and inevitable. In any involved society there must be a feeling that something must be done about poverty - which is the basis of communism.

Umberto Eco

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

Woody Allen

I've become the person I've always hated, but I'm happier.

William Wordsworth

Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author.

William J. Clinton

Presidents are not permitted to have personal feelings.

William James

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

Robert Duvall

I like the good feeling movies.