Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain. It is subject to no disappointments, since he that perseveres, makes every difficulty an advancement, and every contest a victory; and this is the pursuit of virtue.

Charles Stanley

Disappointments will come and go, but discouragement is a choice that you make.

Charles Stanley

Nobody else can make us discouraged; it is a choice that we alone make when facing disappointments.

Charles Stanley

Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.

Al Pacino

I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

A world of confusion and disappointment results from trying to believe without obeying.

Chogyam Trungpa

Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing.

Chogyam Trungpa

Disappointment results from the removal of illusion.

David Morrissey

When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

Charlie Chaplin

That's what all we are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.

Charles de Gaulle

Long live free Quebec!

Charles de Gaulle

Long live Montreal, Long live Quebec! Long live Free Quebec!

Charles Dickens

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

Charles Dickens

Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

Charles Stanley

You may go through difficulty, hardship, or trial—but as long as you are anchored to Him, you will have hope.

Charles Spurgeon

I long for nothing more earnestly than to serve God with all my might.

Charles Spurgeon

I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one.

Charles Spurgeon

Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless!

Arthur C. Clarke

All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.

Arianna Huffington

Those who have matured spiritually, now put service to others at the center of their quest and of their lives.

Alan Cohen

If you are losing your peace in your quest for peace, you are not on the road to peace. The road to peace is peace.

J. B. Smoove

You got to start by doing little things if your quest is to take over the world.

Joely Fisher

I'm always on the quest for something delicious and healthful.

Kate DiCamillo

Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope.

Marshall McLuhan

When information rubs against information the results are startling and effective. The perrenial quest for involvement, fill-in, takes many forms.

Lev Grossman

You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.

Gerry Spence

Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.