Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.

Douglas MacArthur

For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory.

Amy Carmichael

O Love of God, do this for me: Maintain a constant victory.

Stephen Covey

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Karel Bruckner

Nothing but victory would've worked for us, and we got it.

Fernando Pessoa

I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.

Ken Salazar

I'm proud that Colorado delivered a victory to Barack Obama in 2008 and we will do so again in 2012.

Neal A. Maxwell

Consecration thus constitutes the only unconditional surrender which is also a total victory!

Bruce Sterling

There's no victory-condition for being human.

Diana Vreeland

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

Blake Mycoskie

The most important step of all is the first step. Start something.

Donald Hall

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

Craig Newmark

Getting out of the way is really important.

Daniel Pennac

When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

Dylan Moran

I love playing in America. I feel having been there a few times that I "get" America a lot more than I used to. It used to be so strange to me. It takes years to learn how to separate the actual, major, important differences from the superficial differences that aren't essential or crucial.

Allan Bloom

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

Andrea Bocelli

Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.

Alessia Cara

Stay true to who you are, even though that sounds cliché. It's something that's important - doing what feels right for you.

Elizabeth Bowen

The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.

Alfred Korzybski

He who learns and learns and yet does not know what he knows, is one who plows and plows yet never sows.

Desmond Tutu

A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.

Andie MacDowell

We can sit around and go, okay, is there really a plan, does somebody really know what's happening, is it all planned out, because sometimes it just seems too remarkable to me the things that have happened to me.

Amy Carmichael

But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and again and again we have proved that the overwhelming thing does not overwhelm. Once more by His interposition deliverance came. We were cast down, but not destroyed.

Simone Weil

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

Russell Peters

Do it [stand-up comedy] because it feels like the right thing to do. Do it because you don't want to do anything else. There is something in you that does not want you to do anything else other than comedy.

Russell Simmons

Nowhere in the Bible, Koran, or Torah does it say, "If you curse, then you're going to hell." But everywhere it says that if you kill, you're going to wherever they send you, depending on the religion.