Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stanley

The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.

David Korten

If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.

Dave Barry

Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages

Chester A. Arthur

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

Barbara Jordan

All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by the rules, and if you?ve got good enough, solid judgment and common sense, that you?re going to be able to do whatever you want to do with your life.

Barbara Kingsolver

The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Barbara de Angelis

They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.

Brian Tracy

Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.

Ashleigh Brilliant

At any moment, I could start being a better person...but which moment should I choose?

Apolo Ohno

If you put your mind to something, if you give 100 percent, if you sacrifice, and if you dedicate yourself, anything is truly possible.

Blaise Pascal

All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Curiosity must be kept alive.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life was meant to be lived.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

Deepak Chopra

No matter what the situation is...close your eyes and think of all the things you could be grateful for in your life right now.

Edwin Land

The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.

Artur Schnabel

I practice in my head.

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.

Boris Pasternak

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives.

Bruce Lee

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

William Shakespeare

The readiness is all.

Audre Lorde

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

Arthur Rubinstein

...no formula for success [exists] except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." "I accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Denise Levertov

Very few people really see things unless they've had someone in early life who made them look at things. And name them too. But the looking is primary, the focus.

Denis Waitley

Winning is beginning. And just by beginning, your game is half won.

Albert Schweitzer

Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the desire to have compassion for and to help all creatures insofar as it is in our power. I think that this ethic will become more and more recognized because of its great naturalness and because it is the foundation of a true humanism toward which we must strive if our culture is to become truly ethical.

Benjamin Disraeli

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Calvin Coolidge

America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.

Aaliyah

Whatever will be, will be.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

Maurice Maeterlinck

We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.

Charles R. Swindoll

Oh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else.