Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Messer

Other than the motivational stuff, at this point, there's not much we can do.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Bede Jarrett

If we are going to do anything significant with life, we sometimes have to move away from it- beyond the usual measurements. We must occasionally follow visions and dreams.

B. R. Ambedkar

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Bill Shoemaker

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

Bill Cosby

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

C. S. Lewis

You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while you are making them you cannot see them. Good people know about both bad and evil; bad people do not know about either.

C. S. Lewis

Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you - the part that chooses - into something a little different than what it was before. Taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature.

C. S. Lewis

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Frank Tyger

Success won't just come to you. It has to be met at least halfway.

Gillis Triplett

Success is restricted only from those who restrict themselves from success.

Elizabeth Bowen

Some people are moulded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Bertrand Russell

The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms

Brandon Lee

If you've ever found yourself pushed to the limits of your tolerance... you find yourself doing some things that, from the outside, can be seen as quite insane.

Aristotle

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

Alexis de Tocqueville

This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.

Barack Obama

Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.

Terry Paulson

We used to be pampered, now we are searched. The frustration tolerance has been decreased.

Meryl Streep

What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.

Cynthia McKinney

Al Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time.

Amy Chua

I'm suggesting that, ironically, the secret to becoming a world 'hyperpower' is tolerance. If you look at history, you see great powers being very tolerant in their rise to global dominance.