Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Ashe

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

Arthur Ashe

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Arthur Ashe

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

Arthur Ashe

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

Arthur Ashe

Start where you are, use what you have.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Azim Premji

The early years were more about learning than about acting. I had to carry on my father's work, which was a big challenge.

Azim Premji

Character is one factor that will guide all our actions and decisions. We invested in uncompromising integrity that helped us take difficult stands in some of the most difficult business situations.

Azim Premji

I was 21 and had spent the last few years in Stanford University Engineering School at California. Many people advised me to take up a nice, cushy job rather than face the challenges of running a hydrogenated oil business. Looking back, I am glad I decided to take charge instead. Essentially leadership begins from within. It is a small voice that tells you where to go when you feel lost. If you believe in that voice, you believe in yourself.

Ayrton Senna

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

Azar Nafisi

The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became.

Ayelet Waldman

I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.

Ayn Rand

It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.

Ayn Rand

There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.

Ayn Rand

If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

Ayn Rand

Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!

Ayn Rand

I think, therefore I'll think.

Ayn Rand

Never ask people about your work.

Ayn Rand

He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.

Ayn Rand

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

Ayn Rand

The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.

Ayn Rand

every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

Ayn Rand

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

Ayn Rand

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

Ayn Rand

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Ayn Rand

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

Ayn Rand

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

Ayn Rand

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

Ayn Rand

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?

Ayn Rand

If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.

Ayn Rand

Because, you see, God—whatever anyone chooses to call God—is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own possibility thinks very little of himself and his life. It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own. To imagine a heaven and then not to dream of it, but to demand it.

Ayn Rand

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Ayn Rand

Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.