Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it.

Tom Hardy

Every time you need protein, get yourself a boiled egg in. But your main meals would be chicken, or hummus, or white fish. You can lose about a pound a day. But you can do this stuff over a period of time, and you can have your happy days. It's about motivation and it has to be something that's realistic for you to keep up.

John Wooden

The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.

Josh Fox

I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.

Paul Bloom

If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else thinks that they do.

Poul Anderson

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

Leonardo DiCaprio

I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.

Pablo Picasso

Motivation is in the world around us. We have an infinite amount of material at our disposal, in the lives of those we meet, in what we see and feel, in what we discuss and from the passion of every woman.

Paul J. Meyer

There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you.

Mark Steyn

The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.

Nick Lowe

As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle.

Morris Gleitzman

A little hope goes a long way.

Jack Paar

As I look back on my life, I see it as one long obstacle course with myself as the main obstacle.

Woody Allen

I don't mind dying... as long as I don't have to be there when it happens.

Winston Churchill

Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X")

Ronald Reagan

For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and outright falsehood, and this must stop.

Joseph Barbera

So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be an important counterweight.