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.

Mandy Moore

I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

James Russell Lowell

The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

Selena Gomez

Speaking of friends, the best ones always have your back.

Selena Gomez

It's always better to be real.

Loretta Devine

The fact that a person loves one particular person is what is important; the life lesson, whether you are homosexual or heterosexual, is that you not be promiscuous, and true to one person.

Debbi Fields

The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened to all the people during the course of my life who said, "You can't. You'll fail. It won't work. You don't have...," I wouldn't be here today.

Steve Jobs

It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.

Regina Brett

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

Thomas Hobbes

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Tryon Edwards

He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.

Sappho

When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.

Samuel L. Jackson

I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.

Ursula K. Le Guin

At the pit's bottom is no anger.

Robert South

Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.

William Alexander

The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.

William Watson

She is not old, she is not young, The Woman with the Serpent's Tongue. The haggard cheek, the hungering eye, The poisoned words that wildly fly, The famished face, the fevered hand, Who slights the worthiest in the land, Sneers at the just, contemns the brave, And blackens goodness in its grave...

William Hazlitt

We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.

W. Somerset Maugham

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.