Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Herbert

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

George Gobel

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.

George Halas

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

Haim Ginott

I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.

Haim Ginott

Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.

Greg Norman

I always wanted to be the best I could be at whatever I did. I didn't want to be the number one golfer in the world. I just wanted to be as good as I could be.

Jim Butcher

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it. (Harry Dresden)

Jessica Biel

There is so much pressure to look a certain way in this town. But it's nice to have a little meat on you, and I hope I inspire women to appreciate their muscular calves.

Hubert H. Humphrey

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

Hubert H. Humphrey

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Never give up on anybody.

Howard Thurman

Ask yourself what makes you come alive.

Howard Thurman

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

Howard Stern

I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.

Howard Schultz

Sometimes the difference between winning and losing is will. The will to make it happen.

Howard Schultz

Authentic brands don't emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from everything the company does...

Howard Schultz

Don't be threatened by people smarter than you.

Howard Dietz

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

Howard Berman

The focus should not be on talking. Talk is cheap. It must be on action.

Honore de Balzac

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

Honore de Balzac

The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred

Honore de Balzac

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

Honore de Balzac

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

Honore de Balzac

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

Honore de Balzac

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Ian K. Smith

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

Ivan Turgenev

As for work, without it, without painstaking work, any writer or artist definitely remains a dilettante; there's no point in waiting for so-called blissful moments, for inspiration; if it comes, so much the better--but you keep working anyway.

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.

Iris Murdoch

Language is a machine for making falsehoods.

Iris Murdoch

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.

Iris Murdoch

Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.

Imogen Cunningham

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.