Famous Quotes & Sayings

Loretta Lynn

Why leave the nut you got for one you don't know?

Lou Holtz

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

Lou Holtz

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.

Lord Chesterfield

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Mahatma Gandhi

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

Mahatma Gandhi

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Mahatma Gandhi

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Mahatma Gandhi

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

John C. Maxwell

Reflective thinking is like the crock pot of the mind. It encourages your thoughts to simmer until they're done.

James Thurber

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

Emily Dickinson

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Emily Dickinson

Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Emil Zatopek

Try for a goal that's reasonable, then gradually raise it.

Emil Zatopek

If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.

Emil Zatopek

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

Emeril Lagasse

It's okay to play with your food.

Ellen Page

I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission. I suffered for years because I was scared to be out. My spirit suffered, my mental health suffered and my relationships suffered. And I'm standing here today, with all of you, on the other side of all that pain.

Nelson Mandela

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

Elayne Boosler

Laundry's easier when you live alone. Fifteen minutes before a date, put 'em on, dry 'em with a hair blower.

Elayne Boosler

I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something is wrong with me.

Edward Steichen

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

Edward Teller

When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

Edward de Bono

A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.

Edward de Bono

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

Edgard Varese

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

Edith Hamilton

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

Edith Hamilton

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

Eddie Cantor

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.