Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bukowski

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Dale Carnegie

Let's cease thinking of our accomplishments, our wants. Let's try to figure out the other man's good points. Then forget flattery. Give honest, sincere appreciation. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise, and people will cherish your words and treasure them and repeat them over a lifetime - repeat them years after you have forgotten them.

Dale Carnegie

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Dale Carnegie

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Dale Carnegie

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Dale Carnegie

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Dale Carnegie

So, to prevent fatigue and worry, the first rule is: Rest often. Rest before you get tired.

Dale Carnegie

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

Ellen Swallow Richards

I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years.

Edward Dahlberg

Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide.

Edward Dahlberg

Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.

Hermann Hesse

Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All your strength in is your union. All your danger is in discord. Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

Henrik Ibsen

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Alain Prost

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.

Akio Morita

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Chris Carter

I think that you appreciate that there are extraordinary men and women and extraordinary moments when history leaps forward on the backs of these individuals, that what can be imagined can be achieved, that you must dare to dream, but that there's no substitute for perseverance and hard work and teamwork because no one gets there alone; and that, while we commemorate the... the greatness of these events and the individuals who achieve them, we cannot forget the sacrifice of those who make these achievements and leaps possible.