Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aung San Suu Kyi

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

Artur Schnabel

I practice in my head.

Booker T. Washington

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Booker T. Washington

A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.

Booker T. Washington

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.

Booker T. Washington

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

Booker T. Washington

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Booker T. Washington

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Booker T. Washington

Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come

Booker T. Washington

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Booker T. Washington

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Booker T. Washington

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Bobby Scott

It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.

Bobby Knight

The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

Bobby Knight

Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.

Bobby Knight

And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.

Bobby Knight

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

Bobby Knight

When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!

Bobby Knight

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

Bob Dole

When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.

Bob Dylan

You had no faith to lose and you know it.

Bob Dylan

And there's no one there to dry your tears. I could hold you for a million years. To make you feel my love.

Bob Dylan

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.

Bob Dylan

It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't.

Bob Dylan

I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade, into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way.

Bob Dylan

I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.

Bob Dylan

Gonna change my way of thinking, make my self a different set of rules. Gonna put my good foot forward and stop being influenced by fools.

Bob Dylan

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

Bob Dylan

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

Bob Dylan

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

Bob Dylan

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Billy Bragg

War what is it good for? It's good for business.