Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Lee

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

Anne Lamott

You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Anais Nin

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage "People living deeply have no fear of death.

Anais Nin

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

Chuck Palahniuk

All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.

Andrew Shue

I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.

Alice Munro

The constant happiness is curiosity.

Alexander McCall Smith

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

Alexander McCall Smith

You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.

Donald Curtis

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.

Dwight L. Moody

More depends on my walk than talk.

Clement Mok

Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.

Anna Quindlen

Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had.

Andrew Johnson

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Aaliyah

Whatever will be, will be.

Barry Lopez

You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

Barry Lopez

There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.

Barry Lopez

If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.

C. S. Lewis

Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill tempered; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am.

Maurice Maeterlinck

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

Jimmy Carter

The founding of our Nation was more than a political event; it was an act of faith, a promise to Americans and to the entire world. The Declaration of Independence declared that people can govern themselves, that they can live in freedom with equal rights, that they can respect the rights of others.

James Thurber

Don't get it right, just get it written.

Edith Hamilton

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

Jorge Luis Borges

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment-the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is." "Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment-the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.

Lord Chesterfield

Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and even polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

Norman Vincent Peale

You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.

Norman Vincent Peale

Cultivate will power, that massive creative force that God the creator built into you. Do not let it remain flabby but strengthen it by use and exercise.

Norman Vincent Peale

Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society.

Norman Vincent Peale

The one person who most blocks you from a full, happy, and successful life is you.