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.

Stephen Covey

Internal victories precede external victories.

Sophie Swetchine

I love victory, but I love not triumph.

Steve Prefontaine

Nobody likes tainted victories.

Stephen Dunn

All good poems are victories over something.

Steven Moffat

I'd forgotten not all victories are about saving the universe.

William Poole

Our aim is to keep inflation, in general, down. If I had to pick a point, it is to keep these broad measures in a one to two percent range.

Liz Nichols

We are unable to set a target at this point. UK Sport's ultimate goal is to finish fourth in the 2012 Olympic medal table, finishing as top European nation, and retain our second place in the Paralympics, whilst aiming for the top spot.

Cristiano Ronaldo

My aim is to go down in history as one of the best.

Andrew Wyeth

My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work.

Zack Wheat

I am a ball player in the summer and a farmer in the winter time, and I aim to be a success at both professions.

Masayoshi Son

We aim to start mobile phone service by end of 2007.

Joe Roth

We aim to have four or five stores in one area to justify building a new distribution facility. The challenge, however, is to balance DC locations with stores and regional growth initiatives. We are strategically planning for the future with our new Savannah center.

Elizabeth Dole

We aim to give a 'wake-up call' to businesses, to alert them to the fact that the next 'fair-haired boy' of their organization just might be a woman.

Takeshi Suzuki

We aim to exceed last year's totals for consolidated revenue and earnings.

M. J. Rose

When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.

Niels Bohr

I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.

John Waters

Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want.

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is ""God is crying."" And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is ""Probably because of something you did.

Indra Nooyi

I wouldn't ask anyone to do anything I wouldn't do myself.

Gertrude Stein

How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.

Nick Hornby

Have you got any soul?"" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues.

Roger Ebert

If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't.

Winston Churchill

The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.