Famous Quotes & Sayings

Swami Vivekananda

Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood.

Tony Robbins

Always remember that you are bigger than the moment, you are more than anything that could ever happen to you.

Tony Robbins

Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life.

Tony Blair

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

Tom Ridge

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

Simone de Beauvoir

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

Simone de Beauvoir

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

Richard Branson

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

Richard Branson

If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes-then learn how to do it later!

Richard Branson

Lavish praise on people and people will flourish; criticize people and they'll shrivel up.

Richard Branson

One key to entrepreneurial success is to get a great group of people around you who believe in your idea.

Swami Vivekananda

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point

Robert Anthony

The degree to which you will awaken is in direct proportion to the amount of truth you are willing to accept about yourself.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva

Ruby Dee

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

Ross Perot

Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.

Thomas Merton

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

Thomas Carlyle

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Ruth Reichl

One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning.

Rumi

Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.

Rumi

As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner.

Rumi

Let silence take you to the core of life.

Rosa Parks

Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Rosa Parks

I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.

Susan B. Anthony

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

Sonny Perdue

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.

Steve Jobs

That's why I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete. I think that's one of Apple's challenges, really. When two young people walk in with the next thing, are we going to embrace it and say this is fantastic? Are you going to be willing to drop our models, or are we going to explain it away? I think we'll do better, because we're completely aware of it and we make it a priority.

Steve Jobs

I think the artistry is in having an insight into what one sees around them. Generally putting things together in a way no one else has before and finding a way to express that to other people who don't have that insight....

Steve Jobs

All we are is our ideas, or people. That's what keeps us going to work in the morning, to hang around these great bright people. I've always thought that recruiting is the heart and soul of what we do.

Steve Jobs

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.

Steve Jobs

I told [Bill Gates] I believed every word of what I said but that I should never have said it in public. I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

Steve Jobs

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

Steve Jobs

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.