Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerald R. Ford

Personal excellence can be achieved by a visionary goal, through planning, dedicated execution, and total follow-through.

Gerald R. Ford

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

Jim Cramer

Success through the eyes of one once defeated, is true VICTORY.

Jessica Savitch

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

Jessamyn West

People who keep journals have life twice

Jess Walter

All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is real; it's all part of the story we tell. But here's the thing: it's our goddamned story!

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.

Harry Stack Sullivan

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

Hanna Rosin

The global economy is becoming a place where women are more successful than men, and these economic changes are starting to rapidly affect our culture - what our romantic comedies look like, what our marriages look like, what our dating lives look like, and our new set of superheroes.

Hanna Rosin

What the economy requires now is a whole different set of skills: You need intelligence, you need an ability to sit still and focus, to communicate openly to be able to listen to people and to operate in a workplace that is much more fluid than it used to be. Those are things that women do extremely well.

Frank Zappa

Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.

Fred Rogers

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

Frank Herbert

Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.

George Henry Lewes

The only cure for grief is action.

Hakeem Olajuwon

All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?

Greg Smith

Taking action births motivation.

Greg Mortenson

The solution to terrorism is education, not bombs.

Jim Butcher

I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass.

Jim Butcher

We are not going to die." Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?" No. And do you know why?" He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die." I hauled on the shirt even harder. "And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.

Jim Butcher

You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.

Jim Butcher

In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!

Jessica Biel

Being willing to suffer often brings great rewards.

Hubert H. Humphrey

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

Howard Cosell

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.

Ivan Illich

In schools, including universities, most resources are spent to purchase the time and motivation of a limited number of people to take up predetermined problems in a ritually defined setting. The most radical alternative to school would be a network or service which gave each man the same opportunity to share his current concern with others motivated by the same concern.

Ivan Turgenev

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

Iyanla Vanzant

Everything God does is purposeful. And since God is in each of us, each of us has a purpose.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Isaac Asimov

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Do not miss the purpose of this life, and do not wait for circumstance to mold or change you fate.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There is nothing we cannot live down, rise above, and overcome.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.