Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Charles Caleb Colton

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.

Charles Caleb Colton

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

Charles Caleb Colton

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

Charles Caleb Colton

To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.

Charles Caleb Colton

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Charles Caleb Colton

Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

Charles Sturt

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

Charles Spurgeon

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Al Sharpton

James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.

Al Pacino

All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.

Chita Rivera

Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president.

Chinua Achebe

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane. H. P. LOVECRAFT, attributed, Telling It Like It Is Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.

Chinua Achebe

Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.

Dave Barry

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

Buddy Hackett

Don't carry a grudge. While you're carrying the grudge, the other guys's out there dancing.

Cesar Romero

I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn't very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest.

Carlos Santana

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

Alan Watts

Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them.

Alan Perlis

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

Dave Barry

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'

Audre Lorde

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

Charles Horton Cooley

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

Anthony Trollope

I cannot hold with those who want to put down the insignificant chatter of the world

Brendon Burchard

The simple fact that you care, that you want to do your best, that you strive to enjoy life and love, this makes you so much more than enough.

Brian Tracy

Act as if you were already the person you want most to be.

Deepak Chopra

Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.