Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stanley

The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.

David Korten

If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.

Dave Barry

Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages

Chester A. Arthur

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

Barbara Jordan

All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by the rules, and if you?ve got good enough, solid judgment and common sense, that you?re going to be able to do whatever you want to do with your life.

Barbara Kingsolver

The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Barbara de Angelis

They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.

Brian Tracy

Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.

Ashleigh Brilliant

At any moment, I could start being a better person...but which moment should I choose?

Brandi Carlile

You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first loss, usually you suffer a first loss of someone that you love to death, even, you know, really big life lessons, things you learn from your parents' divorce or from the travels that you took.

Boomer Esiason

I was handed a tough life lesson at a very early age.

Brett Favre

Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don't.

Brad Paisley

Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get any good. And it will seem like a waste of time. I remember that feeling well. But don't worry about wasting time, because it'll be so worth it. It's my experience that in the end, life lessons and guitar lessons begin to blur in all sorts of interesting ways.

Cathy Guisewite

Everyday is a new beginning and a chance to blow it.

Bill Gates

Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.

Elizabeth Scott

Three life lessons: 1.No one will see you. 2.No one will say anything. 3.No one will save you.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

Billie Jean King

I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.

Carre Otis

I think that we can't deny the public's want for balancing out the images that are out there depicting women. Not all of us are 17 and a size two.

Carol Roth

Before you can pick a social-media strategy, you have to think of your customer and what the value proposition is for them. Social media is a way to engage customers, not to give your business a 'shout out.'

Carol Leifer

I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.

Carol Shields

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

Carol Shields

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

Carol Moseley Braun

I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some answers, and gives them some hope.

Carol Moseley Braun

I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.

Carol Moseley Braun

And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.

Carol Moseley Braun

I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.