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.

Brian K. Vaughan

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.

Boyd Rice

Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.

C. S. Lewis

and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

Cesar Millan

Denial,they say, stands for"Don't even notice I am lying." Human beings are the only animals who are happily lied to by our own minds about what is actually happening around us.

Billy Carter

I'm not the Carter who'll never tell a lie.

Deborah Smith

Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.

Bobby Hull

If I told you that the big contract had nothing to do with my signing, Id be lying. It made the future secure for my family.

Aristophanes

To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.

Bruce Lee

I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies.

Ayrton Senna

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

Amber Allison

You have to have personality and show that you are respectful and that you have responsibility and dedication to what you are doing.

Randy Schekman

The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.

Slavoj Zizek

The true ethical test is not only the readiness to save the victims, but also - even more, perhaps - the ruthless dedication to annihilating those who made them victims.

Preston LeMaster

Four years of hard work and dedication is finally paying off.

Christina Rossetti

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

Rabindranath Tagore

Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.

Juan Goytisolo

But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals.

John F. Kennedy

In seeking the help of the Congress and our countrymen, I pledged no easy answers. I pledged, and asked, only toil and dedication. These the Congress and the people have given in good measure.