Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gail Sheehy

To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.

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.

Frank Sinatra

To do is to be. -Descartes To be is to do. - Voltaire Do be do be do.

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.

Cate Blanchett

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

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.

Geoffrey Rush

When people come and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.

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?

Isabel Allende

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

Isabel Allende

For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.

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.

George S. Patton

I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

George S. Patton

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.

George Bernard Shaw

This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

Fred Couples

When you're prepared, you're more confident. When you have a strategy, you're more comfortable.

Fred Astaire

Oh, God! That boy moves in a very exceptional way. That's the greatest dancer of the century.

Eric Cantona

Certainly take the advice of others but always, always be yourself.

Eric Cantona

I play with passion and fire. I have to accept that sometimes this fire does harm.

Eminem

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Jack Canfield

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

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.