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.

Saint Patrick

I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.

Thomas Hobbes

Desire to know why, and how curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

Eldridge Cleaver

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

Suzanne Vega

To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

Tommy Shaw

When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.

Fernando Alonso

In Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One.

B. R. Ambedkar

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

Bianca Jagger

I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.

Jeremy Corbyn

Other human rights atrocities from African slavery to the killing fields of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan Genocides are all of course to be remembered, but diluting their particularity or comparing degrees of evil does no good.

Hugh Shelton

And occasionally some of the nations that will be partners in this would probably not be, in terms of passing a pure human rights check, have everything going for them that you would like to have.

Bobby Hull

Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done

Edward Abbey

I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.

Aesop

We learn from the things we suffer.

Aldous Huxley

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

Chuck Jones

You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'

Anita Roddick

I don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There's more to my life than that.

John Wesley

Suffer all, and conquer all.

Jack Kornfield

Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you.

J. I. Packer

Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.