Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Sid Caesar

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Sidney Hook

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll.

Shia LaBeouf

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

Sheryl Sandberg

Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.

Sheryl Sandberg

A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.

Sheryl Sandberg

Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.

Shel Silverstein

The baby bat Screamed out in fright, 'Turn on the dark, I'm afraid of the light.

Shel Silverstein

The Voice There is a voice inside of you That whispers all day long, "I feel this is right for me, I know that this is wrong." No teacher, preacher, parent, friend Or wise man can decide What's right for you--just listen to The voice that speaks inside.

Natalie Goldberg

One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.

Natalie Goldberg

Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before, Each time is a new journey with no maps.

Natalie Goldberg

Use loneliness. Its ache creates urgency to reconnect with the world. Take that aching and use it to propel you deeper into your need for expression - to speak, to say who you are.

Natalie Portman

I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.

Taylor Swift

I definitely know that there's somebody looking out for me, because I could never do this alone.

Tanya Tucker

You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself.

Tara Brach

As long as we are alive, we feel fear. It is an intrinsic part of our makeup, as natural as a bitter cold winter day or the winds that rip branches off trees. If we resist it or push it aside, we miss a powerful opportunity for awakening.

Judith Viorst

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

Joseph Conrad

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Kate Reardon

I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.

Leigh Steinberg

It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.

Laurell K. Hamilton

He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Men don't settle down because of the right woman. They settle down because they are finally ready for it. Whatever woman they're dating when they get ready is the one they settle down with, not necessarily the best one or the prettiest, just the one who happened to be on hand when the time got to be right. Unromantic, but still true.

Lance Secretan

THE POWER OF A COMPELLING CAUSE RESTS IN THE SOUL OF ITS CREATOR, because a cause springs from the soul. It is a spiritual statement from one soul that cannot be the result of many. It comes from a deep place of knowing, some conviction that a richly imagined future could in some way, dramatically and positively, change the world.

Lance Secretan

People are motivated by fear, but they are not inspired by it. Everything that inspires us comes from love.

Langston Hughes

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

Langston Hughes

Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on

John Keats

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.