Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mehmet Oz

You have to be going somewhere to have the energy you need to get there.

Michael Schur

People do things with terrible motivations and those motivations are selfish and self-interested and financially driven.

Michael Schur

I think that that the main problem with a lot of social media stuff in terms of ratings is it's a very skewed motivation.

Michael Scheuer

And when you say the policies are what caused this war - American policies - that's not to say that they're wrong. It's not to say that the policies were made by madmen or evil people. It's simply to say that you better understand the motivation of your enemy if you're going to defeat him. And the man who is motivated by a belief that his religion is being attacked by a superpower is much more dangerous than a man who's mad at you because you have women in the workplace.

Michael Schumacher

I retired simply because I didn't have the passion and motivation anymore; I was tired. At the time I thought, 'Well, I had a great time, there is the end.' At some moment, there is the right time to call it an end.

Michael Sandel

There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement, and for that matter, a recipe for intolerance and coercion.

Michael Sandel

A better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to require that people leave their deepest moral convictions outside politics before they enter.

Michael Reagan

If you believe, so will they.

Michael Korda

To succeed, we must first believe that we can.

Markus Zusak

Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.

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.

Ken Salazar

Frankly, we don't understand what the true motivation was,

I don't think racial motivation has anything to do with it.

Mike Miller

If we have an opportunity to keep it from spreading, shouldn't we do so? A big part of our motivation was to keep it off the Western Slope. It was real nice idea that was probably 10, 15 or 20 years too late.

Linda Howard

She is a perfectionist. Her motivation is her own.

Jerry Reed

When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: money.

Jerome Hines

No matter what techniques and what disciplines you go through, I think there is one factor more intangible and that is the motivation to pick yourself off the ground when you've been totally bloodied and smashed and say, 'Let's fight some more.'.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Your mental attitude is your motivation and your inspiration.

Jim Abbott

Never allow the circumstances of your life to become an excuse. People will allow you to do it. But I believe we have a personal obligation to make the most of the abilities we have.

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.

Jennifer O'Neill

You would not want to be responsible for someone else's happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!

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.

Jacqueline Susann

The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that's where I cut, cut, cut.

Jacqueline Novogratz

I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.

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.