Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bridget Moynahan

There's not a second I regret having a child on my own.

Thomas Jefferson

We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.

Thomas Jefferson

I was dupedby the Secretary of the treasury [Alexander Hamilton], and made a fool for forwarding his schemes, not then sufficiently understood by me; and of all the errors of my political life, this has occasioned the deepest regret.

Rick Ross

I'm very versatile and there's nothing I really regret in my life. I'm excited with who I am and I'm just going to keep riding the wave.

Suzy Kassem

Doubt, fear and regret are the three villains of success. If you close the door on the first two, you will never have to worry about meeting the third.

Tony Parsons

The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement.

Tony Robbins

How can you have any regret when everything worked out fine? But why I think it worked out fine is due to the lessons I learned along the way. And one of those involves listening to experts.

Tony Robbins

I don't think I have any regrets, but I can tell you what I learned from mistakes or failures. I've had plenty of those. I just don't believe in regret, and my economic world is not what I would ever have imagined; I'm financially free.

Simone de Beauvoir

When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.

Dwayne Johnson

The goal [of mine] was always to work in as many different genres as I possibly could.

Dwayne Johnson

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Dwayne Johnson

My goal as an actor is to grow and try different things.

Claudia Schiffer

I set for myself only small goals, goals that are not that far away.

Claude Bernard

The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.

Dalai Lama

I am a firm believer in the importance of democracy, not only as the ultimate goal, but also as an essential part of the process.

Dalai Lama

(Because) the notion of absolute truth is difficult to sustain outside the context of religion, ethical conduct is not something we engage in because it is somehow right in itself but because, like ourselves, all others desire to be happy and to avoid suffering. Given that this is a natural disposition, shared by all, it follows that each individual has a right to pursue this goal. Accordingly, I suggest that one of the things which determines whether an act is ethical or not is its effect on others' experience or expectation of happiness.

Dalai Lama

Many people and companies only have one goal: money, money, and more money. Greed is ok when you let others profit from it, but greed for oneself is bad, it makes you ill.

Dinesh D'Souza

While profit remains the final goal, entrepreneurs spend the better part of each day figuring out how better to serve the needs of their actual and potential customers. They are operationally, if not intentionally, altruistic.

Alice Walker

Resistance is the secret of joy!

Rumi

I will find new meaning in every joy and sorrow.

Rumi

If you love someone, you are always joined with them--in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.

Stella Young

I dance as a political statement, because disabled bodies are inherently political, but I mostly dance for all the same reasons anyone else does: because it heals my spirit and fills me with joy.

Shawn Achor

Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.

Shawn Achor

The way we define happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential

Robert Browning

Sing, riding 's a joy! For me I ride.

Robert Browning

Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.

Richard Ashcroft

I don't know if I have a problem expressing joy, but the difficulty is in making an album, a piece of music that really does reflect life rather than the one dimension. I have a problem in trying to make a complete trip record.