Famous Quotes & Sayings

Muhammad Ali

When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.

Muhammad Ali

Champions come and go, but to be legendary you got to have heart, more heart than the next man, more than anyone in the world.

Muhammad Ali

If you love God, tear out your heart's love of the world.

Muhammad Ali

While Frazier was a man of few words / Ali was a world of mouth / but he found his place in history / Now his heart can express him well / Joe Frazier was a silent warrior / whom Ali silently admired / One could not rise without the other

Muhammad Ali

Frazier soaked it all up like a sponge. When they arrived in Manila it was the same story. Ali poured scorn on his opponent. Humiliated him. Joe had the heart of a lion but verbally he was out of his depth when Ali got going. One time, as fight day approached, Ali spotted Frazier on a hotel balcony, grabbed a security guard's gun and fired some rounds at him. Everybody knew it wasn't live ammo but it still startled the hell out of Joe.] Go back in your hole, Gorilla, You gonna scare the people! Come out again and I'm gonna kill ya before time!”

Muhammad Ali

I had it in my heart. I believed in myself, and I had confidence. I knew how to do it, had natural talent and I pursued it.

Mitch Landrieu

It's a common theme around the city of New Orleans; we're resilient people because we have to be. We love this place with all of our heart and all of our soul and I just wanted to try to do something that I could to help make it better.

Mikhail Lermontov

A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular.

Mikhail Lermontov

I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced with enthusiasm, I am seized by a midwinter freeze, and I suppose that frequent dealings with sluggish phlegmatics would have made a passionate dreamer.

Mikhail Lermontov

Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.

Mikhail Bakunin

The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.

Mikhail Bakunin

We must overthrow the material and moral conditions of our present-day life. . . . We must first purify our atmosphere and completely transform the milieu in which we live; for it corrupts our instinct and our will, and constricts our heart and our intelligence

Mikhail Bakunin

We exhort the compromisers to open their hearts to truth, to free themselves of their wretched and blind circumspection, of their intellectual arrogance, and of the servile fear which dries up their souls and paralyzes their movements.Let us therefore trust the eternal Spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unfathomable and eternal source of all life. The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too!

Maria Cantwell

We will not rest until the wooden stake is punched through the heart of the Enron lawsuit against us.

Martin Jacques

At the heart of globalisation is a new kind of intolerance in the West towards other cultures, traditions and values, less brutal than in the era of colonialism, but more comprehensive and totalitarian.

Martin Lawrence

For me [in my stand-ups] I do what is from the heart. I do what I relate to, what I can talk about, things that I can define. I don't try to talk about things just because they might be a popular subject. I talk about things I know about.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right if the head is totally wrong. Only through the bringing together of head and heart-intelligence and goodness-shall man rise to a fulfillment of his true nature.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

...we must realize that a vast majority of believers are still searching and will continue to search for the being who is the "source of human good." Those who seek with clear heads and sincere hearts will in some measure find. Of course the true seeker will realize that there is no one way to find God. To be sure, there are many possible ways of finding God.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Is your heart right? If your heart isn't right, fix it up today.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Everybody can be great because everybody can serve... You only need a heart full of grace.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong

Martin Luther King, Jr.

My soul is too glad and too great to be at heart the enemy of any man

Martin Luther King, Jr.

With the tough mind, there must also be a tender heart.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It destroys communities and makes humanity impossible. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers... In winning our freedom, we will so appeal to you heart and conscience that we will win you in the process.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of violence and bitterness in the universe, while the former may develop a sense of shame in the opponent, and thereby bring about a transformation and change of heart.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

You only need a heart full of grace

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

Mark Victor Hansen

People don't buy with their head but with their heart. The heart is closer to the wallet than the head.

Mark Hopkins

The strength that we want is not a brute, unregulated strength; the beauty that we want is no mere surface beauty; but we want a beauty on the surface of life that is from the central force of principle within, as the beauty on the cheek of health is from the central force at the heart.

Mark Bittman

If price spikes don't change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will gradually encourage the simple daily act of eating more plants and fewer animals.