Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Arthur Ward

What you believe is more important than what you possess. What you live is more lasting than what you profess. Whom you inspire is more significant than whom you impress.

William Arthur Ward

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Wilfred Grenfell

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not 'to have and to hold' but "to give and serve."

Wilferd Peterson

The art of thinking is the greatest art of all, for 'as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.' The thinker knows he is today where his thoughts have taken him and that he is building his future by the quality of the thoughts he thinks.

Wilferd Peterson

He who hopes to avoid all failure and misfortune is trying to live in a fairyland; the wise man realistically accepts failures as a part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of 'nothing attempted, nothing gained' and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Wilferd Peterson

Love is the dynamic motivation behind every worthy purpose; it is the upward thrust that lifts men to the heights.

Wilferd Peterson

Success is relative and individual and personal. It is your answer to the problem of making your minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years add up to a great life.

Wilferd Peterson

Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth.

Waylon Jennings

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

Voltaire

It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.

Walter Savage Landor

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Walter Savage Landor

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.

Walter Isaacson

I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don’t. It’s the great mystery. (Steve Jobs)

Yogi Berra

Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.

Yogi Berra

It ain't over 'til it's over.

Yogi Berra

I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.

Yogi Berra

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

Winston Churchill

I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.

Winston Churchill

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

Winston Churchill

Never, never, never give up.

Winston Churchill

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

Winston Churchill

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Winston Churchill

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Rick Warren

Worry is focused thinking on something negative. Meditation is doing the same thing only focusing on God's word instead of your problem.

Rick Warren

God's mercy to us is the motivation for showing mercy to others. Remember, you will never be asked to forgive someone else more than God has forgiven you.

Rick Warren

Relationships, not achievements or the acquisition of things, are what matters most in life.

Rick Warren

Everybody's got a worldview. Everybody's betting their life on something. ... You just better know why you're betting what you're betting on.

Tristram Stuart

We, the people, do have the power to stop [the] tragic waste of resources if we regard it as socially unacceptable to waste food.

Torii Hunter

Kirby played every day. You feed off of that. When you think of Kirby, you think of motivation. Im definitely going to dedicate this year to him.

Steve Young

The principle is competing against yourself.

Veronica Roth

Take away someone’s fear, or low intelligence, or dishonesty . . . and you take away their compassion. Take away someone’s aggression and you take away their motivation, or their ability to assert themselves. Take away their selfishness and you take away their sense of self-preservation.

Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do.

Vince Lombardi

Leadership rests not only on outstanding ability. It also rests on commitment, loyalty and pride. It rests on followers who are ready to accept guidance. Leadership is the ability to direct people and - more important - to have those people accept that direction.