Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jesse Jackson

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

Jean Houston

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

Jacques Yves Cousteau

The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.

Jack Vance

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

Gary Vaynerchuk

True success - financial, personal, and professional - lies above all in loving your family, working hard, and living your passion. In telling your story. In authenticity, hustle, and patience. In caring fiercely about the big and the small stuff. In valuing legacy over currency.

Hillary Clinton

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

Hillary Clinton

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

Farley Mowat

We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.

Eve Ensler

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

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I don't have to wait for nobody, I move when I wanna move.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

The ultimate goal is to always break records.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Cotto is a talented fighter but I'm God gifted.

Frederick Douglass

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

Frank Warren

Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism playing out silently in the lives of people all around us.

Fernando Flores

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

Henry Mintzberg

If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they do. Don't be surprised if you can't relate what you see to those four words.

Henry Moore

The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.

Henry Miller

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

George Eliot

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

George Eliot

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Frank Capra

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

J. B. Smoove

You're trying to make someone wet their pants and you're trying to make somebody crap in their pants. That's the motivation of a comic. Who else has that power?

Jeff Bezos

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.

George William Curtis

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

George S. Patton

I don’t fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying, ‘Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

George S. Patton

Always do more than is required of you.