Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Jordan

There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players andnever win titles. Most of the time, those players aren't willing tosacrifice for the greater good of the team. The funny thing is, inthe end, their unwillingness to sacrifice only makes individualgoals more difficult to achieve. One thing I believe to the fullestis that if you think and achieve as a team, the individual accoladeswill take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork andintelligence win championships.

Vito Fossella

The United States has a responsibility to help our new allies achieve democracy and become full partners in a range of international affairs.

Lou DiBella

What a wonderful guy this was. And I've never met anybody so proud or so grateful to achieve his dream. If there's any solace to be taken in this, it's that he died doing what he loved. He died a champion.

Sarmad Zok

We will use the new money we hope to raise to help us to achieve our strategy of acquiring luxury hotels and resorts in high growth markets in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Central and Eastern Europe.

Jean Todt

We will try to do a better job by trying to do the best as possible, as we always did but that simply, we did not achieve in 2005.

Dylan Moran

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

Zack Space

I am looking forward to working with Congressman Hobson and Vorys Advisors to help Ohio businesses and organizations achieve their goals and objectives.

Bob Davies

We are committed to making the tough but necessary decisions to ensure the future viability of GreenMan and continue to evaluate all viable alternatives to achieve this objective with our primary focus on our southeastern operations,

Diana Ross

Well, even though she had six kids, my mother really believed I could achieve whatever I set out to do. Maybe it was my vitality or something.

Bob Kemp

We want to celebrate the immense positive contribution of volunteers in Henderson County.

Dwyane Wade

I mean, you can't really celebrate after you hit the free throw. But if you miss the free throw, yeah, it takes the whole and-one thing out the window. Then it's just a basket.

Julie Snyder

We are part of Iowa's initiative to celebrate voting,

Bruce Feiler

Celebrate your family's bleakest moments and how your relatives overcame them. In doing so, you will encounter darkness, but you'll give your children the confidence that they, too, shall overcome.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.

Mary Lou Retton

I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

Jacques Lacan

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

Laura Esquivel

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.

Johnny Evers

In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.

John Yoo

It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners.

John Churton Collins

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

Jim Calhoun

You can?t predict this thing ... two, three, four all gone. How do you predict these things? The whole idea that No. 1 gets the easy route ... there are no easy routes. Those teams at 16 are really good, and they have incredible desire to win. By the time you get to 8-9, you?re facing really good teams.

Alison Nordstrom

These are instructions in desire. It's a staged, idealized vision of a perfectly happy household.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

There is no land like England, Where'er the light of day be; There are no hearts like English hearts, Such hearts of oak as they be; There is no land like England, Where'er the light of day be: There are no men like Englishmen, So tall and bold as they be! And these will strike for England, And man and maid be free To foil and spoil the tyrant Beneath the greenwood tree.

Debbie Ford

Your soul’s desire are with you at birth like a hidden treasure chest of possibilities for you to discover as you grow and evolve into the person you were meant to be. Give voice to what you long for in the deepest place in your heart.

E. O. Wilson

In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.

Donna Brazile

I'm not here to talk about bigotry in the sense that I don't know what's in Donald Trump's heart. I hope that it's a heart of compassion.

Donna Karan

Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul. For me, designing is an expression of who I am as a woman, with all the complications, feelings and emotions.

Dwight L. Moody

If we have got the true love of God shed abroad in our hearts, we will show it in our lives. We will not have to go up and down the earth proclaiming it. We will show it in everything we say or do.

Debbie Macomber

But although she was with family and friends, she'd never felt more alone. She felt as if she'd lost a vital part of herself and she had - her heart.

Allyson Felix

What's really heavy on my heart is fighting physical inactivity.

Anthony Hamilton

Being a businessman, you want to invest your time and your heart into growth and a legacy, and sometimes it's about going over there and getting it. But you don't have to lose yourself.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Richard Hatch

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

Amy Tan

I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

Rick Nielsen

I prefer to be an equal-opportunity offender of the guitar.

Thomas Paine

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.

Thomas Schelling

I use game theory to help myself understand conflict situations and opportunities.

Thomas Sankara

Let there be an end to the arrogance of the big powers who miss no opportunity to put the rights of the people in question. Africa's absence from the club of those who have the right to veto is unjust and should be ended.

Thomas S. Monson

Our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable.

Thomas Sowell

Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.

Bruce Springsteen

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

Leonard Maltin

Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.

Neil LaBute

Everyone has a story.

Kate Seredy

[My stories were] an excuse for making pictures.

Lili Taylor

As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.

Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Peter Gabriel

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.

Paz Vega

I like small stories.

Phil Crosby

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

Mark Martin

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Michael Grade

I sometimes say that success just happens. That's not true. You have to make it happen. When I make up my mind to do something, I make sure it happens. You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Robert Redford

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

Wallace Stevens

The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.

Saint Francis de Sales

Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.

Vince Lombardi

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect for authority are the price each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Malcolm X

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

Malcolm Gladwell

Achievement is talent plus preparation

Orison Swett Marden

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.