Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

Charles Caleb Colton

A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.

Charles Caleb Colton

If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The light of intellect has put out the fire of persecution, as other fires are observed to smoulder before the light of the same.

Charles Caleb Colton

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

Charles Caleb Colton

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Charles Caleb Colton

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Charles Caleb Colton

We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.

Daniel Johns

I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better.

Donald Evans

I will continue to stay very focused on the economy.

Alonzo Mourning

I had to develop the mentality and stay positive about making my comeback.

John C. Maxwell

Be the most enthusiastic person you know.

John C. Maxwell

As negative thoughts produce negative actions, so positive thoughts produce positive actions.

Napoleon Hill

Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.

Norman Vincent Peale

Begin where you are. Don't wait for someone else to change things for you. Do it yourself

Hayley Williams

I have the ability to build myself up or break myself down. I stay positive. Strength comes from within.

Joan Jett

I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.

Alan Rickman

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

David McCullough

How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are?

Deepak Chopra

If you look at all the notions we accept about who we are, you find that they are all based upon our perceptual experiences.

Beth Moore

When God's Word is deliberately internalized, it will be authentically externalized because it's no longer what we do - it's part of who we are.

Demian Bichir

Cinema serves as a constant reminder to us of who we are and what we are made of.

Brene Brown

Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be.

Dave Ramsey

Debt has become a part of who we are.

Aleister Crowley

Every incarnation that we remember must increase our comprehension of ourselves as who we are.

Bryant H. McGill

The ultimate question of who we are is set before us at all times and answered with every action.