Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denzel Washington

It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.

Anthony Burgess

If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in observing the depths to which human behaviour can sink. Everyone likes to have his deepest convictions confirmed; that is one of the most abiding of human satisfaction.

Edward Abbey

There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure.

Jack London

His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.

Oswald Chambers

Never be hurried out of the relationship of abiding in Him.

Oswald Chambers

The busyness of things obscures our concentration on God ... Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him. This is an easy thing to allow, but we must guard against it.

Sherwin B. Nuland

The greatest dignity to be found in death is the dignity of the life that preceded it. This is a form of hope that we can all achieve, and it is the most abiding of all. Hope resides in the meaning of what our lives have been.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

Emanuel Steward

If there is one abiding theme in the gym, it's the withering work in the ring. Those not fit do not survive.

Pat Riley

Maybe something happened at the other end of the court, but I don't like that. There has to be dignity at the end of the game.

Pat Riley

Maybe something happened at the other end, but I don't like that. There's got to be some dignity at the end of the game. I've got to talk to him about it. I didn't like that.

Bob Reed

One of the keys to it is treating everybody with dignity and respect - he treated all of his employees the same.

Rick Carlisle

I don't think it shows much dignity to make excuses after you get your butts kicked. It was like they're everywhere and our feet were stuck in mud.

Eleanor Catton

I think it's more optimistic about human nature to acknowledge that people are the products of their time but then to see that they have moments of grace and dignity that everybody has.

John Bacon

It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.

John Bacon

It comes down to the way you treat people, ... When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.

Calvin Coolidge

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Hebrew Proverb

He who takes his rank lightly raises his own dignity

Xun Zi

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

Thomas J. Watson

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Wendelin Van Draanen

What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.

Virginia Postrel

People without children do have the freedom to do things that caring parents with dependent kids can't - to work long hours, to travel frequently, to relocate, and to do all these things on short notice if necessary. In return, they can achieve positions that devoted parents can't.

Bill Gates

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

Yehuda Berg

The whole point of all of this - why we are here, why the world is here, and why we have the political system and leaders that we do - is to achieve change. This is the purpose of life.

Chris Bohjalian

My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to write 800-1,200 words. I don't always achieve it, and the reality is that a lot of the words I write will end up on the cutting-room floor.

David Beckham

I've played under some of the biggest and best managers and achieved almost everything in football. Of course it hurts when people question it, but I've come to the end of my career and can look back and say I've achieved everything with every club that I've played for.

Robert Rubin

The overarching point of the president's economic strategy going forward in the 1999 budget is clear: under no circumstances should we take any steps that will undo the fiscal discipline that we have worked so hard to achieve and has been so central to our strong economy of the last five years.