Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. As in the words of Wayne Dyer, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Sometimes to know with certainty that a particular thing is "true", will actually be the very thing that keeps you from attaining the things you seek to achieve.

Mark Twain

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.

Mark Twain

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. You cannot eliminate habits that no longer serve you. You can only replace them with new habits that support your goals. Moment by moment, you need to live with awareness and structure the habits that you include or exclude in your days.

Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. So many look to eradicate fear from their lives, when that is an impossible task. You can certainly experience moments in absence of fear, however accept that fear will be with you whenever you are in the process of living creatively. The challenge is to go ahead regardless, simply notice the feeling and manage being courageous.

Mark Twain

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your own skin. When you achieve that as a natural state of "being", then you can finally look beyond yourself and fully contribute all your talents to the world.

Mark Twain

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

Mark Twain

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

Mark Twain

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

Mary Browne

You know you are old when you've lost your marvels.

Mary McCarthy

We are the hero of our own story.

Kate Chopin

but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.

Julia Ward Howe

While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?

James Cash Penney

No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

Harry S Truman

Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you.

Grant Morrison

The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would ever see the universe exactly the same way any other of us saw it.

Michelangelo

Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Be patient with all that is uncertain in your heart...do not search for answers, which will not be given: you will not be able to live them, and its importat to live everything.

Horace

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Jesse Jackson

We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.

James A. Garfield

For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult; but the honor of success is increased by the obstacles which are to be surmounted. Let me triumph as a man or not at all.

James Buchanan

The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.

Irena Sendler

Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.

Grover Cleveland

Good ball players make good citizens.

Grover Cleveland

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

Gail Devers

It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.

Hugh Leonard

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

Ernest Becker

The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.

Mother Teresa

Never permit me to disgrace my high vocation by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.

John C. Maxwell

If you travel alone, you can probably go faster. But the journey will never be as rewarding, and you probably won't be able to go as far.

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.

Quentin Crisp

What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.

Mehmet Oz

Whatever you choose, do it fully-with passion and childlike enthusiasm.