Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Capra

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

Jack Nicklaus

To sink a six-foot putt with thirty million people looking over your shoulder, convince yourself that, if you miss it, you will be embarrassed and poor.

C. S. Lewis

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Arsene Wenger

For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal.

Bum Phillips

Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.

Christopher Hitchens

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.

Jillian Michaels

Don't shut down your emotions. Embrace them. Your emotions are your internal compass telling you whether or not you are on track. Use them to help cultivate your passions or motivate you to change situations and circumstances that hold you back from achieving your goals.

Jillian Michaels

The trick is not escaping your fear, but confronting it and allowing it to drive and teach you. Only by getting to the bottom of your fears can you find their valuable lessons and move forward stronger than before.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!

Gerald R. Ford

There is an old saying, The harder you try the luckier you get. I kind of like that definition of luck.

Jessica Savitch

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

George Henry Lewes

The only cure for grief is action.

Hubert H. Humphrey

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

J. K. Rowling

If someone asked for my recipe for happiness, step one would be finding out what you love most in the world and step two would be finding someone to pay you to do it. I consider myself very lucky indeed to be able to support myself by writing.

Ivan Krastev

[It's] difficult to engage people in politics when they believe that what really matters is where they personally stand.

Gene Kelly

I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer and taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.

Friedrich Nietzsche

No journey is too great, when one finds what one seeks.

William Shakespeare

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.

Malala Yousafzai

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

A. E. Hotchner

Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.

Abraham Flexner

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man's perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency; that man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.

William Shakespeare

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.

Daley Thompson

When we stage the Olympics it will inspire kids all over the country. A kid in Scotland or Ireland will be encouraged to take up sport.

Daley Thompson

In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.

David Joyner

Somewhere along the line you have to trust someone. You've just got to be clever enough to pick someone who's smart and wholesome and worthy-and then just listen to what they say.

Claude Monet

It is better to have done something than to have been someone.

Dan Pallotta

When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation. If you kill innovation in fundraising, you can't raise more revenue. If you can't raise more revenue, you can't grow. And if you can't grow, you can't possibly solve large social problems.

Dan Pallotta

We have a visceral reaction to the idea that anyone would make very much money helping other people. Interesting that we don't have a visceral reaction to the notion that people would make a lot of money NOT helping other people.

Dan Miller

Choosing to associate with positive, optimistic people will accelerate our positive growth.

Dan Miller

Our expectations determine how we respond. Be careful what you expect.

Dan Miller

Passion is more developed than discovered.

Dan Miller

Circumstances will never determine your amount of happiness. Circumstances only highlight who you already are.