Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain. It is subject to no disappointments, since he that perseveres, makes every difficulty an advancement, and every contest a victory; and this is the pursuit of virtue.

Charles Stanley

Disappointments will come and go, but discouragement is a choice that you make.

Charles Stanley

Nobody else can make us discouraged; it is a choice that we alone make when facing disappointments.

Charles Stanley

Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.

Al Pacino

I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

A world of confusion and disappointment results from trying to believe without obeying.

Chogyam Trungpa

Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing.

Chogyam Trungpa

Disappointment results from the removal of illusion.

David Morrissey

When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

Alanis Morissette

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

Alan Hansen

You'll never win anything with kids

Alan Alda

Kids are natural scientists.

Al Purdy

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

Al Madrigal

Near my house in Los Angeles is a waterfall. I love to take the wife and kids, but it's also near a sketchy neighborhood. So there's a lot of gang members that hang out at the waterfall. It's like somebody took an Ansel Adams photo and then put a Cypress Hill video inside it.

Al Lewis

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

Brad Lancaster

We want the kids to do as well as they can. There are so many opportunities (for various activities), and that's good. But, how do we make sure it's not a distraction.

Chris Colfer

It doesn't matter how old I get, I always act like an excited five year-old kid with severe ADD and a waddle at Disneyland.

Chris Colfer

My life is an awkward visit from the kid's table while awaiting a History Channel special.

Brad Meltzer

No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.

Juvenal

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

Debra Winger

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

Aristotle

There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.

Aristotle

Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

Eddie Vedder

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

Eliot Spitzer

Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.

Kourtney Kardashian

I am always trying to evolve, so I like to read parenting books and things like that.

Roberta Zelleke

But for parenting teens you need a whole new set of tools.