Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.

Hugh Jackman

Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.

Hugh Jackman

Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.

Hugh Jackman

Giving people a hand up, not a handout, is the way forward.

Gloria Steinem

Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.

Giving means extending one's love with no conditions, no expectations and no boundaries. . . Peace of minds occurs, therefore, when we put all our attention into giving and have no desire to get anything from, or to change, another person. . . The giving motivation leads to a sense of inner peace and joy that is unrelated to time.

J. P. Morgan

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

J. Michael Straczynski

I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.

J. K. Rowling

If someone asked for my recipe for happiness, step one would be finding out what you love most in the world and step two would be finding someone to pay you to do it. I consider myself very lucky indeed to be able to support myself by writing.

Ivan Krastev

[It's] difficult to engage people in politics when they believe that what really matters is where they personally stand.

Ivan Lendl

I believe the brain is like a muscle - like any other it can be improved.

H. G. Wells

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

H. G. Wells

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

Greg Lynn

It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Use your past successes as a trampoline, not an easy chair.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Encourage anyone who is trying to improve mentally, physically, or spiritually.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.

Gene Kelly

I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer and taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.

Friedrich Nietzsche

No journey is too great, when one finds what one seeks.

Jenna McCarthy

Merely watching a romantic comedy causes relationship satisfaction to plummet. Apparently, the bitter realization that maybe it could happen to us, but it obviously hasn't and it probably never will, makes our lives seem unbearably grim in comparison.

Samuel Butler

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

We don't know the motivation (for the suicide).

William Shakespeare

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.

We're not too worried about this one. We wanted to win and should have, but this is just going to be motivation for state.

Malala Yousafzai

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

Terence McKenna

The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are precisely the tendencies in our psychological makup that the psychedelics mitigate. The plant hallucinogens dissolve habits and hold motivations up to inspection by a wider, less egocentric, and more grounded point of view within the individual.

Aberjhani

The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.

A. J. Jacobs

More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.

A. R. Rahman

There were basically three themes. One was the sun theme which is the guitar when he'd get sun on his leg and it comes again in the end. And there's of course the lullaby which Dido sang, "If I Rise." And then there's this driving guitar which is the motivation theme.

A. E. Hotchner

Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.

Adam Yauch

When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation in the right place. Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he's got his heart in the right place.

Adam Rayner

Sometimes our motivations can be quite hazy, contradictory and multi-faceted, in real life.