Famous Quotes & Sayings

Honore de Balzac

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

Ian K. Smith

The happiest people are fearless dreamers. They use their imaginations to create hope and possibility.

Isak Dinesen

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

Ilka Chase

The only people who never fail are those who never try

J. R. R. Tolkien

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

Iyanla Vanzant

You've got to be willing to lose everything to gain yourself.

Isaac Asimov

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

Immanuel Kant

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

Ellen Gilchrist

One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old.

Ellen DeGeneres

In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love-Plus many mysteries.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

Horace

Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

Horace Mann

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Homer

A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time

Gloria Steinem

The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.

J. K. Rowling

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

Greg Louganis

Fear is a part of everything you do ... You have to take great risks to get big rewards.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

Gene Fowler

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

Hunter S. Thompson

The first time I managed to pick up a basketball I knew I was destined to lead the UK to another National championship. ... Even now, so many years later, I still believe Kentucky will go undefeated in March & win everything.

Hunter S. Thompson

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

Alexandra Adornetto

That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.

Alexander the Great

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Alexander Pushkin

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.

William Shakespeare

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

William Shakespeare

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

William Shakespeare

A light heart lives long.

William Shakespeare

Let every man be master of his time.

William Shakespeare

I do desire we may be better strangers.

Honore de Balzac

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.