Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Merton

Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one person: himself.

Thomas Carlyle

A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.

Thomas Carlyle

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

Thomas Carlyle

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Thomas Carlyle

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Thomas Carlyle

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

Tony La Russa

The thing I learned when I was playing was that your best way of winning was to make it difficult for the other team to score in the last three innings.

Tony Hsieh

After what seemed like an eternity, we finally reached the summit just as the sun was rising. I couldn't believe that we had actually done it. We were standing at the highest point in all of Africa, looking down at the clouds below us, with the sun directly in front of us, its rays welcoming us to the beginning of a new day. It didn't seem like this was something that humans were meant to experience, yet here we were

Tony Hsieh

Problems are just mile markers. Each one we pass means we've gotten better.

Tony Hsieh

Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.

Tony Hsieh

I think when people say they dread going into work on Monday morning, it's because they know they are leaving a piece of themselves at home. Why not see what happens when you challenge your employees to bring all of their talents to their job and reward them not for doing it just like everyone else, but for pushing the envelope, being adventurous, creative, and open-minded, and trying new things?

Tony Hsieh

I made a list of the happiest periods in my life, and I realized that none of them involved money. I realized that building stuff and being creative and inventive made me happy. connecting with a friend and talking through the entire night until the sun rose made me happy. Trick-or-treating in middle school with a group of my closest friends made me happy. Pickles made me happy.

Tony Buzan

Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as evidence of fundamental incapacity. This negative thinking pattern can create a self-fulfilling prophecy, which undermines the learning process. To maximize our learning it is essential to ask: "How can we get the most from every mistake we make?"

Tony Dungy

Hard work and togetherness. They go hand in hand. You need the hard work because it's such a tough atmosphere... to win week in and week out. You need togetherness because you don't always win, and you gotta hang though together.

Tommy John

You're going to feel good. But no matter how much you rehab you do, you can't speed up the healing process. I would rather see a guy come back in 14 months and pitch seven, eight or nine more years then come back in 10 months and get hurt again. You cannot mess with mother nature and father time. Nature will heal it if you give it time.

Tommy Lasorda

You give loyalty, you'll get it back.

Tom Watson

Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.

Tom Seaver

Pitch within yourself.

Steven Spielberg

The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years.

Steven Spielberg

Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.

Steven Gerrard

Don't visualize beating the keeper, visualize destroying the keeper.

Steve Nash

I'm playing; I'm here. I'm going to fight until they tell me they don't want me anymore.

Steve Nash

I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.

Steve Nash

People have always doubted whether I was good enough to play this game at this level. I thought I was, and I thought I could be. What other people thought was really always irrelevant to me.

Stephen Hawking

I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.

Stephen King

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

Stephen King

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Sally Pearson

I imagine these two girls next to me every time single time I'm going over those hurdles in training.

Sally Pearson

I'm really hard on myself as well, nothing is good enough for me in training. I always want more, I always want to give 100%. I use my training like a competition. I imagine these two girls next to me every time single time I'm going over those hurdles in training.

Rosalind Russell

Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

Rosalind Russell

Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

Rosa Parks

you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.