Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Mead

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

Margaret Mead

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Margaret Mead

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Heffernan

If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.

Margaret J. Wheatley

One of the easiest human acts is also the most healing. Listening to someone. Simply listening. Not advising or coaching, but silently and fully listening.

Margaret J. Wheatley

The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.

Margaret Fuller

When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.

Margaret Fuller

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

Margaret Fuller

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

Margaret Fuller

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Marcus Allen

Love yourself. Respect yourself. Never sell yourself short. Believe in yourself regardless of what people think. You can accomplish anything, absolutely anything, if you set your mind to it.

Marcus Buckingham

Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.

Marcus Buckingham

If you want to be clear, act.

Marcus Buckingham

You grow most in your areas of greatest strength. You will improve the most, be the most creative, be the most inquisitive, and bounce back the fastest in those areas where you have already shown some natural advantage over everyone else your strengths. This doesn't mean you should ignore your weaknesses. It just means you'll grow most where you're already strong.

Kin Hubbard

Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.

Kin Hubbard

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

Kin Hubbard

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Michael Lewis

Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them.

Michael Bloomberg

I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.

Michael Bloomberg

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

Melinda Gates

Think, for a moment, about our educational ladder. We've strengthened the steps lifting students from elementary school to junior high, and those from junior high to high school. But, that critical step taking students from high school into adulthood is badly broken. And it can no longer support the weight it must bear.

Melinda Gates

Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.

Melissa Etheridge

There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier.

Melissa Etheridge

The sign says do not enter, no trespassing allowed. With visions of redemption I walk against the crowd.

Melissa Etheridge

I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!'

Melissa Etheridge

You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

Melissa Marr

Happiness is a choice.

Michelangelo

As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.

Michelangelo

With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.

Michelangelo

Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes me inside, and bit by bit reduces me to ashes?

Michelangelo

No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.

Michelangelo

Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.