Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert M. Pirsig

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Wally Amos

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Zhuangzi

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

William Godwin

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

Washington Irving

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Rhonda Byrne

Be grateful for what you have now. As you begin to think about all the things in your life you are grateful for, you will be amazed at the never ending thoughts that come back to you of more things to be grateful for. You have to make a start, and then the law of attraction will receive those grateful thoughts and give you more just like them.

Sam Walton

You can't just keep doing what works one time, everything around you is changing. To succeed, stay out in front of change.

William Hazlitt

The more you do, the more you can do.

James Allen

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Euripides

He is wise that is wise to himself.

Richard Baxter

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.

Reinhold Niebuhr

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. This prayer was first printed in a monthly bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches and has become enormously popular. It has been circulated in millions of copies.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

Woody Allen

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Woody Allen

Whosoever loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.

William Wordsworth

Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

William Wordsworth

Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.

William Wordsworth

Wisdom sits with children round her knees.

Jean Price

Jack gave him that right encouragement. You never know when that special pat on the back is going to be the one that influences them.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

David Woodruff

His signs are great, probably as good as can be expected at this stage. We're all so encouraged.

Dave Chappelle

I was doing sketches that were funny, but socially irresponsible. It was encouraged.

Jason Dawson

He's been a great encouragement to me. He said to be a great point guard I have to get my assists and rebounds as well as my points. Right now I'd rather have 10 assists than six points.

Mark Peters

I don't have the money to take home, but I did get a lot of encouragement. I'm optimistic.

Troy Vincent

I encourage everyone out there to get involved.

William Kunstler

After years spent trying to deal with the effects of COINTELPRO, my rage at the FBI's almost unimaginable evil remains undiminished because I believe that it succeeded in many of its horrifying goals, given the deaths of Martin King, Malcolm X, and other sixties leaders. Since the FBI uses taxpayer dollars to fund its extreme and ridiculous investigations of anyone who expresses dissenting opinions, even resorting to crime - including theft, encouragement to murder, subornation of perjury, and manipulation of the judicial process - to achieve its ends, I have always advocated its disbanding.

William James

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