Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miranda July

I guess like any writer or screenwriter I'm alone in my own world so much of the time that I'm often trying to force myself out of my world. Into more risk. A less controlled kind of inspiration. I'm so keenly aware of how easy it's getting to not leave the house, with Amazon, especially.

Millard Fillmore

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

Mike Murdock

Pay any price to stay in the presence of extraordinary people.

Mignon McLaughlin

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.

Mignon McLaughlin

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

Mignon McLaughlin

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

John Williams

Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as a bolt out of the blue. We have to get our vanities and our preconceptions out of the way and do the work in the time allotted.

John Wooden

Your reputation is what you're perceived to be, Your character is what you really are

John Wooden

I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.

John Wooden

Make today your master piece.

John Wooden

Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress.

John Wooden

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating...too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.

John Wooden

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

John Wooden

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

John Wooden

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

John Wooden

Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.

John Wooden

Never mistake activity for achievement.

John Wooden

Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at time. That's the only way it happens-and when it happens, it lasts.

John Wooden

The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.

John Wooden

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

John Wooden

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

John Wooden

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

John Wooden

Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read.

John Wooden

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating. Youngsters need good models more than they need critics. It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.

John Wooden

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

John Wooden

Never lie; never cheat; never steal. Don't whine; don't complain; don't make excuses.

John Wooden

Make every day your masterpiece.

John Ruskin

It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend.

John Ruskin

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

John Ruskin

Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own.

John Ruskin

Education...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,... by praise, but above all -- by example.

John Ruskin

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

John Ruskin

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.