Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giuseppe Mazzini

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the living present to bury itself in the deepest mysteries of the universe; often making the grandest discoveries at a single glance.

Georges St-Pierre

With discipline, belief, and the right knowledge, we become the best we can be.

Horace

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Herbert Spencer

A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

Herman Melville

All we discover has been with us since the sun began to roll; and much we discover, is not worth the discovering.

Henry David Thoreau

Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline.

Henry David Thoreau

As we grow older, we live more coarsely, we relax a little in our disciplines, and, to some extent, cease to obey our finest instincts. But we should be fastidious to the extreme of sanity, disregarding the gibes of those who are more unfortunate than ourselves.

Henry David Thoreau

So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders.

Jerry Gillies

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

James C. Collins

You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.

James C. Collins

Discipline is consistency of action.

Christopher Hitchens

The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if there was one. You would never be able to escape.

Christopher Hitchens

We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.

Fritz Scholder

You must walk that tightrope between accident and discipline. Accident by itself…so what? Discipline by itself is boring. By walking that tightrope and putting down something on a canvascoming from your guts, you have a chance of making marks that will live longer than you.

Jeanette Winterson

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

Jeff Bezos

There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

Georges Cuvier

Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches

George Will

The education of this president [Obama] is a protracted and often amusing process . . . as he continues to alight upon the obvious with a sense of profound and original discovery.

George S. Patton

Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of battle.

George S. Patton

You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things.

Jefferson Davis

The Slave must be made fit for his freedom by education and discipline, and thus made unfit for slavery. And as soon as he becomes unfit for slavery, the master will no longer desire to hold him as a slave.

Emily Saliers

Discrimination is a bad bad bad thing.

Jason Statham

And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

Jason Furman

Fiscal discipline begins by leveling with people, by being honest, by paying for all of your proposals.

Herbert Read

The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his mood, to modulate his metre as he progresses. Far from seeking freedom and irresponsibility (implied by the unfortunate term free verse) he seeks a stricter discipline of exact concord of thought and feeling.

Herbert Hoover

The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found the origins of all our modern industry and commerce. In fact,our civilization is wholly built upon our scientific discoveries.

Eugene Jarecki

You can't have a discussion about politics without mentioning Ronald Reagan.

Ernest Hemingway

Hunger is good discipline.

Ernest Hemingway

that every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a marvelous discovery

Ernest Hemingway

First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Orphei Drängar possesses a combination of power, energy, and culture. Joy of discovery combined with professional technical and musical prowess.

Graham Greene

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.