Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.

Charles Dickens

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.

Charles Spurgeon

The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents.

Alan Bishop

There hasn't been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres. They're not into dicing and slicing everything up.

Alan Bennett

All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.

Al Ries

If you want to build a brand, you must focus your branding efforts on owning a word in the prospect's mind. A word that nobody else owns.

Akio Morita

If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of work.

Childe Hassam

These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Condi Rice talks tough but she cannot be tough herself.

Dave Franco

I'm a tough critic on myself.

John Stemberger

We're in a tough place. This is a Herculean task.

Arnold Palmer

Establish a system you have confidence in and rely on it when you get into tough situations.

Bikram Choudhury

I am tough, and sometimes I tell it like it is. Tough love can work wonders.

Tim Donovan

Whether you have to go to Groveland or Timbuktu, ... there should always be an official. It's tough to find volunteers.

Avery Johnson

We're making progress, but it was just a tough loss.

Joe Torre

When we get to that point, we'll probably know (what to do), ... If we have to make a tough decision, we'll make a tough decision.

Joe Torre

When we get to that point, we'll probably know, ... If it's a tough decision, we'll make a tough decision. But I don't know what we're going to do. Mel has written it down all the way to the end of the season, but there are a lot of scratch-outs.

Alan Watts

Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will?

Michael Strahan

You've got to be very conscious of what people see. If I saw somebody every day, I would get sick of them. Most guys think, 'If I can get on TV every day and give that quote, I'm going to be golden.' It's not about that. It's about showing people you can be yourself.

Michael Newton

The people who go geocaching are environmentally conscious and don't intentionally want to harm the environment.

Jodie Foster

There are conscious reasons and unconscious reasons why I pick something. You know, I have to be moved by the story and usually that means it has to touch me in some kind of personal place.

Jay Lefkowitz

We spoke about the importance of raising international consciousness on the issue of human rights in North Korea and the terrible deprivation of human rights by that regime.

Edward Gibbon

[Courage] arises in a great measure from the consciousness of strength . . .

David Icke

I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all aspects of the same infinite consciousness that we call God and Creation.

Norman Finkelstein

I don't want to pretend to be a prophet or a saint. I'm very conscious of my limitations. I know my flaws. But I don't like lying.

Katsuaki Watanabe

Whether Toyota is going to become No. 1 in the world or not is not something that I know. I am not conscious if Toyota is going to become No. 1 in the world or not.