Famous Quotes & Sayings

G. M. Trevelyan

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

Gene Roddenberry

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

Garth Brooks

I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry.

Frederick Carl Frieseke

Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?

Frederick Douglass

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

Frank Gehry

For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.

Fernando Flores

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

Ferdinand Foch

School is a building that has four walls-with tomorrow inside. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. There are many ways of going forward, but there is only one way of standing still. A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills. Doing your best is more important than being the best. Giant oak trees started out as little nuts. The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

Ferguson Jenkins

Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.

Henry Mintzberg

If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they do. Don't be surprised if you can't relate what you see to those four words.

Henry Moore

The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.

Henry Miller

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

Henri Bergson

Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins their journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of following the crowd and by choosing knowledge over the veils of ignorance.

Helen Keller

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

Helen Keller

The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.

Helen Keller

Look the world straight in the eye.

George Eliot

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

George Eliot

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Frank Jackson

Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Frank Capra

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

Christopher Columbus

Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of the others.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

Ingrid Bergman

I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

Inge de Bruijn

Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.

Indra Nooyi

At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.

Jim Carrey

People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.

Jim Carrey

If you've got a talent, protect it.

Jet Li

A weapon isn't good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.

Jet Li

Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.

Jewel

We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don't, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.

George William Curtis

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.