Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Martin

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Michael Grade

I sometimes say that success just happens. That's not true. You have to make it happen. When I make up my mind to do something, I make sure it happens. You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Robert Redford

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

Wallace Stevens

The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.

Saint Francis de Sales

Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.

Vince Lombardi

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect for authority are the price each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Malcolm X

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

Malcolm Gladwell

Achievement is talent plus preparation

Orison Swett Marden

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.

Mary Lou Retton

I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

Jacques Lacan

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

Laura Esquivel

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.

Johnny Evers

In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.

John Yoo

It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners.

John Churton Collins

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

Jim Calhoun

You can?t predict this thing ... two, three, four all gone. How do you predict these things? The whole idea that No. 1 gets the easy route ... there are no easy routes. Those teams at 16 are really good, and they have incredible desire to win. By the time you get to 8-9, you?re facing really good teams.

Alison Nordstrom

These are instructions in desire. It's a staged, idealized vision of a perfectly happy household.

A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. "Hear that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby.

G. H. Hardy

The people who come to us are desperate. It's as if they're in a burning building. Their lives are at stake.... We didn't feel that we could morally back out and put these people back in the fire and let them die.