Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Soren Kierkegaard

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.

Sue Grafton

The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.

Sheena Easton

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.

Niki Taylor

My greatest life lesson has been that life can change in a second. This is why it's important to always live your best possible life and to do what you can for others.

Johnny Mathis

When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.

Archie Shepp

Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.

Barbara Kingsolver

The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.

Cameron Diaz

It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Ethics to me is very important.

Miley Cyrus

Even when you're acting, you still need to be true to yourself because you don't want to put on a show for the rest of your life. It is a hard way to the top, but it is also very easy to come back down as well. Also, it is really important to keep yourself rested, and whenever you need a break, take a break.

Anton Chekhov

What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all.

Bela Lugosi

I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.

Diana Vreeland

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

Demetri Martin

Small businesses are important, but so are tiny businesses.

Bob Dole

If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.

Thomas Sowell

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

Robert Greene

No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.

T. S. Eliot

Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.

Sydney J. Harris

This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.

Thomas Jefferson

We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

Richard Branson

A setback is never a bad experience, just another one of life’s lessons.

Richard Branson

Just start. You will learn so many lessons just by doing.

Tiger Woods

The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today...There is no such thing as a setback. The lessons I learn today I will apply tomorrow, and I will be better.