Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Rohn

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Jim Rohn

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Alan Watts

Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.

Alan Watts

Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.

Alan Watts

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Alan Watts

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

Alan Watts

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

Alan Watts

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Samuel Butler

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Jennifer Lawrence

I'm never going to starve myself for a part. I don't want little girls to be like, 'Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I'm going to skip dinner.' That's something I was really conscious of during training, when you're trying to get your body to look exactly right. I was trying to get my body to look fit and strong-not thin and underfed.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

Lisa McMann

I don't see a day when teenagers don't read. They are very enthusiastic. That is so inspiring to me.

William Shakespeare

Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.

Adrienne Rich

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

Adrienne Rich

No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.

Adam Yauch

I want to say a little something that's long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

Robert Kiyosaki

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it's just noise that can be a distraction.

Robert Kiyosaki

I wasn't born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

Daisaku Ikeda

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

Condoleezza Rice

I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.

Meryl Streep

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

Dwight L. Moody

We are not fountains ourselves; but the Word of God is the true fountain.

Dwight L. Moody

If God did not want us to understand the book of Revelation, He would not have given it to us at all.

Dwight L. Moody

The object of the Bible is not to tell how good men are, but how bad men can become good.

Dwight L. Moody

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.

Joseph Addison

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Paulo Coelho

What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.