Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Piper

Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world.

John Wooden

You never want to confuse activity with accomplishment.

Martin Filler

When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century's major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern urbanism.

Lesley Visser

That I've lasted is one of my greatest accomplishments. Maybe my greatest.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

David Viscott

People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.

Diablo Cody

People have always wanted to be recognized, and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible.

Denzel Washington

At the end of the day, it's not about what you have or even what you've accomplished. It's about what you've done with those accomplishments. Its about who you've lifted up, who you've made better. It about what you've given back" (23).

Che Guevara

To accomplish much you must first lose everything.

Elizabeth Edwards

You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.

Garry Winogrand

I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.

Sara Gruen

Being the survivor stinks.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

We do not invest in victims, we invest in survivors.

Courtney Love

I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.

Tobey Maguire

It definitely deserved an Oscar, but not a Golden Globe.

Philippe Falardeau

I don't like ostentatious galas and stuff like that, but if you get to the Oscars, you'd better get used to it and you'd better enjoy it.