Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harriet Beecher Stowe

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

Gregory Hines

I felt that I didn't want to be in show business anymore. I felt that I wanted to be a farmer. I was milking cows and shoveling terrible stuff and working all day. By the end of the day, all I wanted was my tap shoes - I thought, 'What am I doing? I better get back where I belong on the stage where we work at night and can sleep late!

Holly Near

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

Holly Lisle

You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.

Holt McCallany

I would say that one of the really special gifts about playing an athlete is that it's the best motivation you'll ever have to get in top shape and stay in top shape because you know that you're going to be expected to deliver.

Iggy Pop

It's the same thing: I would think, "If I can't go out and pull some teenager tonight, maybe I'm no good on stage anymore." And you start to think that you even need it as a motivation. I did, anyway.

Hugh Blair

In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions.

Hank Azaria

You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.

Hank Aaron

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

Hank Aaron

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

Hannah Arendt

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Hannah Arendt

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

Guy deBord

Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.

Guy Finley

The great ones in life are not those who are handed silver spoons. Their excellence comes from digging into the raw ore of their own character, through hard work, persistence and faith turning whatever they touch into gold.

Guy Finley

If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly.

Gerhard Richter

I have no motif, only motivation. I believe that motivation is the real thing, the natural thing, and that the motif is old-fashioned, even reactionary (as stupid as the question about the meaning of life)

Harvey V. Fineberg

Are we at some kind of evolutionary equipoise as a species? Or, are we destined to become something different - something, perhaps, even better adapted to the environment?

Harvey Milk

All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.

James D. Watson

Remember, grab you're future with both hands and mold it into what you want it to be. It's the determined, who create the life they want, while the idle sit by and watch it fade away into nothingness. The future belongs to the exceptional individuals, who can see the light of the future, at the end of the tunnel.

James Bryant Conant

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Jakob Dylan

Tolerance can lead to learning something.

Jaimie Alexander

Television is competitive now, and the great stories live on television right now. I'm finding that I'm enjoying television more than film, these days. That was my motivation to take a TV show.

Jack Youngblood

I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.

Jack White

I cannot judge what motivates people. We are all moved by one of four things or a combination of these four things: money, romance, recognition or survival.

James G. Stavridis

Life is not an on and off switch. You don't have to have a military that is either in hard combat or is in the barracks.

James G. Stavridis

No one person, no one alliance, no one nation, no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.

James Freeman Clarke

Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.

Jean Nidetch

You can do anything you want to. Follow your dreams; because if you say you can't do it, you'll spend the rest of your life proving it.

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.