Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Trump

Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.

Alex Trebek

We are all experts in our own little niches.

David Platt

Peruse the Christian marketplace, and you will find a plethora of books, songs, and paintings that depict God as a loving Father.

David Platt

I can almost picture the disciples faces. "No, not the drink-my-blood speech! We'll never get on the list of fastest-growing movements if you keep asking them to eat you!

David Platt

Christianity does not start with an invitation we offer to Jesus, but with an invitation Jesus offers to us.

Anne Frank

I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that every-thing will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

Richard Bach

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Thomas Paine

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

Steve Martin

Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.

Brian Tracy

To remain confident and positive, think about your goals all the time.

Eckhart Tolle

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

Edgar Allan Poe

But Psyche uplifting her finger said: Sadly this star I mistrust

Doug E. Fresh

There's nothing more special than talking in your community, and using your celebrity to uplift people and help them.

Doug E. Fresh

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.

Doug Larson

It's your ability to inspire and uplift other people that matters, not your ability to outdo them.

Dalai Lama

Unfortunate events though potentially a source of anger and despair have equal potential to be a source of spiritual growth. Whether or not this is the outcome depends on your response.

Dolly Parton

I just love life. I love people. I love to write, that's my gift. I love to sing. I have a good attitude. I like to think I shine from the inside.

Deepak Chopra

If we suspend judgment and look to how we can make conscious choices to uplift the situation, we can be sure that we are doing all we can to attract a happier and more harmonious outcome.

Marcus Buckingham

Spend the most time with your best people. ... Talent is the multiplier. THe more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time. ... Persistence directed primarily toward your non-talents is self-destructive. ... You will reprimand yourself, berate yourself, and put yourself through all manner of contortions in an attempt to achieve the impossible.

Nora Ephron

I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here?

Eugene Fama

After taking risk into account, do more managers than you’d see by chance outperform with persistence? Virtually every economist who studied this question answers with a resounding 'no.'

Frank Herbert

I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.

Maurice Maeterlinck

At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.

David Weinberger

The Internet is a medium only at the bit level. At the human level, it is a conversation that, because of the persistence and linkedness of pages, has elements of a world. It could only be a medium if we absolutely didn't care about it.

Ram Dass

Along with faith comes the requirement for dogged persistence. At first meditation may bring you mild highs or some relief from suffering. But there may come a time - just as there does in the development of any skill - when there will be a plateau. You may be bored, discouraged, or even negative and cynical. This is when you will need not only faith, but persistence.