Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dr. Seuss

Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky!

Zig Ziglar

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

William Wilberforce

If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

Carl Jung

I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.

Robert Cormier

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

Richard P. Feynman

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Russell Crowe

People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused.

Ron Blomberg

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

Truman Capote

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

William James

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

Henry David Thoreau

However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

Louisa May Alcott

life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.

Garrett Hedlund

You look at what interests a person and then you formulate what their opinions are, in terms of how they see the world, and how they see love and life.

Helen Mirren

It's a mystery that thing about chemistry because often people who hate each other in real life and hate each other on the set have great chemistry on the screen. And people who love each other in real life and love each other on the set have absolutely no chemistry whatsoever.

Haruki Murakami

The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now

Jim Rohn

A few years ago I lost one of my dearest friends. He died at age 53 - heart attack. David is gone, but he was one of my very special friends. I used to say of David that if I was stuck in a foreign jail somewhere accused unduly and if they would allow me one phone call, I would call David. Why? He would come and get me. That's a friend. Somebody who would come and get you.

Alan Watts

Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them.

Alan Perlis

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

Tucker Max

Motherfucker. She leaves me no choice. Now I have to break her self-esteem, sleep with her and steal the shirt.

Samuel Johnson

Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem from swelling into insolence. A thousand incivilities may be committed, and a thousand offices neglected. without any remorse of conscience, or reproach from reason.

Wayne Dyer

You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being - not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money - but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Wayne Dyer

You... and only you choose your thoughts.

Sarah Dessen

Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.

Whoopi Goldberg

You have to believe in yourself in spite of what other people believe.

Whoopi Goldberg

For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.

William Arthur Ward

Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future.

Tracey Gold

When I was 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became public. And it had a lot to do with my self-esteem.