Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Sedaris

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

Dave Barry

The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them.

Jane Austen

I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?

Jane Austen

I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.

Brian Tracy

Success is not necessarily determined by material possessions or accomplishments. You can enjoy success simply by reaching the point where you are perfectly content with your life in every respect and you feel no dissatisfaction or pressing need for anything else. In this sense, you can be a success sitting by yourself in a quiet place contemplating the world.

Brian Tracy

One of the most important rules for success is this: Every great success is the result of hundreds and thousands of small efforts and accomplishments that no one sees or appreciates.

Brian Tracy

Always focus on accomplishments rather than activities.

Brian Tracy

Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.

Brian Tracy

You have the ability, right now, to exceed all your previous levels of accomplishment

Beatrice Wood

Celibacy is exhausting.

Gene Robinson

The truly longstanding tradition in the church is that some are called to celibacy. Some feel called to it. But the church has never supported that celibacy be mandated for someone not called to it. It's never imposed on someone.

Rivers Cuomo

I decided to try celibacy because I heard it would help the meditation, and I tried meditation because I heard it would help with the music. So, it all really comes back to the music.

Mahatma Gandhi

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

George Bernard Shaw

Vice is waste of life. Poverty, obedience and celibacy are the canonical vices.

Tim Roth

I try and take the family with me everywhere I can. It's getting harder the more kids I have. But celibacy sucks.

Bill Walton

I'm a lifelong stutterer.

Tom White

Just try everything and find something you like. Success comes from enjoyment. No one's going to do something lifelong that they hate. It has to be something you personally enjoy. As long as you like it, you are going to stick with it.

Charles Kennedy

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

Andrew Kreisberg

I'm a lifelong 'Doctor Who' fan. Like, Peter Davison/Colin Baker, lifelong fan.

Bob Greenly

And You Know You Should Be Glad: A True Story of Lifelong Friendship.

Eli Broad

As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools.

Melissa Marr

As a lifelong romance reader, it's always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!

Steve Truglia

I realised how much misdirection is in stunt co-coordinating. It's similar to magic, the tricks we use to make people think the stunt is real. I also have a lifelong fascination with gambling cheats. I'm not one, but I do have a fascination with it.

Sarah Hughes

It was a dream of mine to be an Olympic champion but not a lifelong goal.