Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paulo Coelho

You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.

Paulo Coelho

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage. I spent a large part of my youth traveling the world as a hippie. And what money did I have then? None. I barely had enough to pay for my fare. But I still consider those to have been the best years of my youth. The great lessons I learned has been precisely those that my journeys had taught me.

Martin Scorsese

Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.

Marlon Brando

‎We only have so many faces in our pockets

Marlon Brando

I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don't apologise, that's my life

Marisha Pessl

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

Marissa Mayer

If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.

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

What you do in practice is going to determine your level of success. I used to tell my players, 'You have to give 100 percent every day. Whatever you don't give, you can't make up for tomorrow. If you give only 75 percent today, you can't give 125 percent tomorrow to make up for it.'

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.

John Wooden

Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.

John Wooden

Remember this your lifetime through: Tomorrow there will be more to do. And failure waits for all who stay With some success made yesterday. Tomorrow you must try once more, And even harder than before.

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 Johnson

They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down.

Michael Josephson

People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world.

Michael Josephson

Don't let others define you. Don't let the past confine you. Take charge of your life with confidence and determination and there are no limits on what you can do or be.

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.

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.