Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Koestler

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

Charles Kennedy

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

Aung San Suu Kyi

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

Bill Hybels

If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now.

Twyla Tharp

What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.

Elbert Hubbard

A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love; with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority; brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.

Yossi Beilin

Today, when we're approaching the moment of truth, when courageous people have to make courageous decisions, ... it is a must that they will talk to each other and see whether it is possible to get to the permanent solutions and to touch all the delicate issues.

Frank Tyger

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Richard Gephardt

We gain courage and effort and a desire to work with you from what you have done, ... We are trying to be ... half as good as you have been in what we do.

Jose Maria

As far as we can, I hope and desire that they are soon out of prison.

Robert Clarke

Our desire is to be involved in a series as we view as the pinnacle and the premier open-wheel racing series, ... and see that as maybe a priority over the need to have competition.

Alphonso Jackson

Of the families I talked to, 90% of the families have no desire to go back, ... But that's not what I'm hearing from Texas. It's a whole different perspective.

Joe Browne

Some people, you can tell if they want it bad. He always was a kid who wanted to be a good player. He had that will and desire to play. Everyone around the pool room saw that.

Baha'u'llah

The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved.

C. S. Lewis

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

Janet Guthrie

It is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.

Dan Ariely

individuals are honest only to the extent that suits them (including their desire to please others)

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

David Brock

These are all parts of an effort by the administration to manipulate information.

John Tortorella

That's not saying he doesn't have the ability, but he gets everything out of himself every night. And when he's not going, it's not working for him, you know the effort is going to be there.

Pete Hoffman

That's not really the effort I was looking for today. This group's been able to get up for some big games, but today they just didn't get up for it.

Toby Bickel

We've struggled the last half of the season off and on. I was pleased with our effort and our execution, for the most part.

Bob Punter

We want to come out and play like it's 26-24 and we're playing a huge game down the road. We need to have 32 minutes of good, solid effort and focus.

Janet Guthrie

Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.

Monica Tooley

We really had a strong team effort. The effort was great the entire time. ... We fixed a lot of things today.

Troy Ellerman

We're a rodeo association, not a bull-riding association. Our efforts should be focused on making our rodeos better.

Kazunori Jinnai

The Nasdaq gains gave a gentle nudge higher to a market that was ready for a rebound after last week's losing spell.

Jere Adcock

The most impressive thing to me about him now is how many yards he gains after contact. He doesn't give you a big target to hit, and he's exceptionally strong.

David Briggs

The S&P lost 50 points last week and today we gained back four. This is not great.

Cheryl Smith

The whole thing with the power of prayer in our minds is true. And a lot of what has happened, and the strength he has gained back and progress he's made, without sounding corny, I think a lot is attributed to prayers.

Sarah Bolton

The victory of success is half done when one gains the habit of work.

Josh Brown

This is the first year I haven't lost weight, and I've gained strength.

Juvenal

To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.

Richard G. Scott

I witness that as you gain experience and success in being guided by the Spirit, your confidence in the impressions you feel can become more certain than your dependence on what you see or hear.

Adam Jonas

At this pace, Fiat should gain significant share.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Don Kloth

Normally, we're a very good free-throw shooting team. But tonight, we weren't.

Dean Wagenaar

Normally we're a good 3-point shooting team but we weren't hitting anything today, so they just plugged up the middle and took Chad's shots away. We panicked a little in the third quarter but the kids held together. Bruce's kids are so disciplined, and they really know how to protect their floor.

Levi Leipheimer

After the first two mountain stages people realized Lance was as good as ever.

Chris Riddell

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Robert McCullum

The start of the second half is probably the worst we've opened the second half all year." ()

Jay Frye

The score right before the half was a huge key. We got a turnover late and were able to take it in for a score just before the half. That was a turning point, no doubt.

Mike Herakovic

It was ugly the first half of the game. It was ugly, but it was a win.

Jane Austen

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

Miley Cyrus

I love my music so much, and I love what I'm doing so much that that has become my other half-rather than another person.

Boris Kodjoe

We shoot 12 to 14 hours a day. To do all that physical stuff yourself, you have to be on a nutritional plan. I have six or seven meals a day. I eat every hour and a half, and make sure it's all clean. I have absolutely no sugar at all.

John Grisham

Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.

Rodney Vigil

We had a strong second half offensively and defensively.

Joel Brown

We've had trouble playing two halves all year long. We put one half together and we can't put the next one together. Tonight we got those two halves right.

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Brad Paisley

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Jane Hirshfield

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

Cameron Diaz

I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

C. S. Lewis

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

Alan Dundes

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Charles Kettering

There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do.

LaMarr Woodley

You don't want to overeat too much because then you have to work twice as hard.