Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Lakein

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Alan Keyes

In its proper constitutional sense, the term [militia] means all the able-bodied people who can be trained and disciplined to act in the community’s defence when it’s attacked. Since it encompasses every able-bodied person, it does not refer to those—such as the police, the military, or even the National Guard—who formally compose the official defence forces of the nation. Every citizen able and willing to act in an emergency becomes a potential defender against attacks aimed at the general population.

Charles de Gaulle

In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.

Charles de Gaulle

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.

Charles de Gaulle

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

Charles de Gaulle

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.

Charles Dickens

The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.

Charles Stanley

American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

David Morrell

His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky.

Carol Shields

The silence is perfect, and yet a torment ...

Carlos Castaneda

The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit

Alan Kulwicki

The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect. The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection.

Charlotte Bronte

The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.

Charles de Lint

Well, you know this world isn't perfect.' 'No, you're wrong. This world IS perfect, people just come along and mess it up sometimes.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.

Charles Dickens

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

Charles Stanley

No matter how far we may wander from the Lord’s perfect will for our lives, we are always welcome back.

Charles Spurgeon

If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven; and even if you could find a perfect assembly on earth, I am sure they would not admit you to their fellowship, for you are not perfect yourself.

David Cunliffe

Those who are flexible in thought, will inevitably succeed.

Akhenaton

In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.

Babette March

I never thought I wouldnt succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.

Barbara Hepworth

The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure.

Brian Tracy

Failure is an absolute prerequisite for success. You learn to succeed by failing.

Jamie Hyneman

If at first you don't succeed, C4

Bill Gates

The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.

Bill Gates

Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services.

Ben Horowitz

To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.