Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodore Parker

Let us do our duty in our shop or kitchen; in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, and

W. S. Gilbert

Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it,

Vicente Fox

Let us proceed sensibly and bravely to demolish all vestiges of authoritarianism and to build a genuine democracy,

Jewel

Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom, no longer lend your stregth to that which you wish to be free from. Fill your life with love and bravery and you shall live a life oncommon.

Tim Williams

Lord, we pray that you use Christian's life in a very powerful and brave way like you did his father, David,

Dick Cheney

Many brave Americans have laid down their lives so that liberty could triumph, ... Tomorrow, like today, the most import ingredient for the Army's success will be the soldiers who take the risks and make the sacrifices and win our wars.

Steve Jones

Senator Thompson will host his first program this Memorial Day, focusing on America's brave servicemen and women.

Christiane Amanpour

No detail was too small for him to chase and to check, ... He was dedicated and brave and brilliant, and he had a deep strain of wisdom and conscience.

Laurie Armstrong

One of the things the hospitality industry offers is employment on every level. Whether someone just made the brave move from another country, with perhaps little education or with a lot of education and degrees crossing over from another industry, all of these folks have opportunities in tourism. Young or old, part time or full time, it needs everyone.

Charles Spurgeon

If you get condemnation out of the Gospel, you put the condemnation into it yourselves! It is not the Gospel, but your rejection of it that will condemn you.

Alan Watts

The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that our so-called love and concern for the individual is simply the other face of our own fear of death or rejection. In his exaggerated valuation of separate identity, the personal ego is sawing off the branch on which he is sitting, and then getting more and more anxious about the coming crash!

Derek Jeter

Everyone fears rejection.

Beth Moore

The next time you feel rejection's sting, remember God's words to Samuel: "It is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me." (1 Sam. 8:7)

Chazz Palminteri

Oh, great reviews are the worst. They mislead you more than the bad ones, because they only fuel your ego. Then you only want another one, like potato chips or something, and the best thing you get is fat and bloated. I'd rather just refuse, thanks.

Carol Leifer

As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.

Aya Cash

Being an actor is definitely not the hardest job in the world - it's definitely a first-world problem to have, but I'm not very good with rejection. I constantly question whether or not I'm suited for this business, because it is your job to get rejected.

Britney Spears

Actually, I was a little rejected at first. I kind of got slapped down.

Ashton Kutcher

The largest fear in the world is to speak in public. We fear of stumbling, or public humiliation, and so we're fearing a face-to-face rejection. So, we'll say things in a text or e-mail that we would never say face-to-face. So, relationships are coming together faster and breaking apart faster, and they're a little bit more disposable.

Don Cooper

Let's face it, there was a lot of criticism when he started in New York. I've been saying, if that would have ruined his career, then he's not the guy we thought he was anyway. And we've all seen first-hand that's not the case.

Lloyd Carr

Obviously, when you're part of a unit that has had as much criticism as the defense has had, I think it's a motivating factor, ... But what I look at it is the way they've worked, and the way they've trained, and the way they've practiced. We're much stronger up front than we were a year ago, and I think that was one of the problems, one of the big problems. We're stronger, we're bigger, we have better depth. I think that is going to make a difference.

Diane Sawyer

A criticism is just a really bad way of making a request...so just make the request.

Deborah Tannen

In an ongoing relationship, each current criticism packs the punches of all the others that have gone before.

Edgar Allan Poe

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Dick Cheney

To point out that our military has been overextended, taken for granted and neglected -- that is no criticism of the military,

Cynthia Hinckley

One of the criticisms of 'work first' is that it's really good at getting people jobs, but not as successful at getting people out of poverty.

Alex Brink

Because of the position I am on the team and the situation we have I'm going to take some criticism when we lose and probably even when we win,