Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sure, it's easy to be upbeat when everything is going your way. Anyone can do that. It is far more important, however, to take a positive approach in circumstances that most people would view as negative.

Serena Williams

I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.

Serena Williams

Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.

Michael Phelps

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.

Seth Godin

...treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's certainly not available to someone merely because he is the high bidder. A day's work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters. As your work gets better and your art becomes more important, competition for your gifts will increase and you'll discover that you can be choosier about whom you give them to.

Seth Godin

The only long-term motivation is self motivation. So hire people who are self motivated and get out of their way.

Mike Tyson

My power is discombobulatingly devastating. It's ludricrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

Margaret Halsey

The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

Max Lucado

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

Max Walker

My father Big Max told me many years ago that 'anything you are good at will contribute to your happiness'. Great advice.

Matthew McConaughey

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

John Updike

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

Peter Drucker

During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should be changed or introduced. A willingness to depart from the familiar has distinct survival value.

Nas

For my hustlers, here's some motivation: He who has begun is half done.

John Wooden

You can always look back and see where you might have done something differently, changed this or that. If you can learn something, fine, but never second-guess yourself. It's wasted effort.... Does worrying about it, complaining about it, change it? Nope, it just wastes your time. And if you complain about it to other people, you're also wasting their time. Nothing is gained by wasting all of that time.

John Wooden

Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time

John Wooden

The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.

Michael Hansmeyer

If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design?

Michael Hansmeyer

[There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.

Michael Jordan

Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.

Michael Jordan

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Abraham Lincoln

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

Abraham Lincoln

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

Abraham Lincoln

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Abraham Lincoln

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Anne Sullivan

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Jesse Jackson

You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

Jesse Owens

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Jean Houston

We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.

Jack Vance

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience.

Hillary Clinton

You shouldn't have a profit motivation to fill prison cells with young Americans.

Eve Ensler

When we give in the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us.