Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles R. Swindoll

Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.

Dennis Rodman

I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.

Dennis Rodman

The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.

Dennis Rodman

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.

Dennis Rodman

I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.

Democritus

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.

Elbert Hubbard

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Bob Saget

If 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger,' how do you explain zombies?

Diana Ross

I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don't want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I'm not afraid to talk money.

Alex Haley

In the bush, trust no one you don't know.

Donella Meadows

What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign.

Bob Graham

The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.

Joseph Stalin

I trust no one, not even myself.

Mark Gatiss

Some facts in life are immutable. One is, trust no-one who uses the word 'trope'.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!

Gary Oldman

What other people think of me is none of my business.

Albert Schweitzer

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

Albert Schweitzer

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

Albert Schweitzer

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

Albert Schweitzer

Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.

Albert Schweitzer

Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.

Albert Schweitzer

Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.

Albert Schweitzer

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

Albert Schweitzer

The destiny of man is to be more and more human.

Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.