Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Tracy

Persistence is self-discipline in action.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The four basic ingredients for success are: you must have the will to want something; you must have the right kind of attitude; you must have perseverance, and then you must have wisdom. Then you combine these four and then you get to where you want to get to.

Edward Norton

As we say in the sewer, if you're not prepared to go all the way, don't put your boots on in the first place.

Dale Carnegie

If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Aesop

Plodding wins the race.

Christopher Reeve

You can do anything you think you can.

Albert Camus

Morality, when formal, devours.

Swami Vivekananda

Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres.

Tobias Wolff

We are made to persist. that's how we find out who we are.

C. S. Lewis

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

Dean Young

but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.

Antonya Nelson

Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.

David Bowie

There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Annie Leibovitz

I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.

Angela Merkel

If you want to be constructive in politics, the less you look back, the better. If you do look back, then it can only be to learn for yourself through the events that have taken place.

Angela Carter

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force

Anthony Bourdain

In Italy, kids are taken to restaurants very early, they're welcome there, and they learn how to behave. You don't see a lot of screaming crying kids acting out in a restaurant in Italy. They don't put up with that.

Nora Ephron

I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here?

David Weinberger

The Internet is a medium only at the bit level. At the human level, it is a conversation that, because of the persistence and linkedness of pages, has elements of a world. It could only be a medium if we absolutely didn't care about it.