Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Stewart

If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.

Eric Thomas

When you leave this earth, accomplish every single thing you could accomplish.

Eric Heiden

I'd rather get a nice warmup suit. That's something I can use. Gold medals just sit there. When I get old, maybe I could sell them if I need the money.

John McPhee

If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.

John Galsworthy

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.

John Badham

The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably.

George Allen

Every time you lose you die a little bit. You die inside...a portion of you. Not all of your organs. Maybe just your liver.

George A. Sheehan

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

Lucian Freud

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

Lou Holtz

I'm not a disciplinarian. I simply enforce other people's decisions.

Lou Holtz

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

Lou Holtz

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

Lou Holtz

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Lou Holtz

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Lou Holtz

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

Lou Holtz

In life, be a participant, not a spectator.

Lou Holtz

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Lou Holtz

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Lou Holtz

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

Lou Holtz

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Lou Holtz

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Lou Holtz

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Malcolm Gladwell

Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.

Malcolm Gladwell

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig. (150)

Malala Yousafzai

I reassured my mother that it didn’t matter to me if my face was not symmetrical. Me, who had always cared about my appearance, how my hair looked! But when you see death, things change. “It doesn’t matter if I can’t smile or blink properly,” I told her. “I’m still me, Malala. The important thing is God has given me my life.

Malala Yousafzai

We human beings don't realize how great God is. He has given us an extraordinary brain and a sensitive loving heart. He has blessed us with two lips to talk and express our feelings, two eyes which see a world of colors and beauty, two feet which walk on the road of life, two hands to work for us, a nose which smells the beauty of fragrance, and two ears to hear the words of love.

Malala Yousafzai

I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.

Magic Johnson

Once Michael gets up there he says, 'Well, maybe I'll just hang up here in the air for a while, just sit back.' Then all of a sudden, he says, 'Well, maybe I'll 360. No I changed my mind. I'll go up on the other side.' He's just incredible.

Magic Johnson

When I'm under the gun and I've got pressure on me, I don't panic. I look for the right solution, and then I go for it.

Magic Johnson

If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.

Magic Johnson

I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.

Mahatma Gandhi

No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged.

Mahatma Gandhi

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present