Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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?

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.

Michelle Obama

Choose people who lift you up.

Sidney Lanier

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

John Quincy Adams

It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.

Millard Fillmore

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

Maxwell Maltz

Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.

Matsuo Basho

From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo

Maynard James Keenan

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

Maya Angelou

Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now.

Michael Josephson

Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident. It's not a matter of circumstance but of choice. Choose to live a life that matters.

Margaret Sanger

As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next. The most trivial of incidents fits into the larger pattern like a mosaic in a preconceived design.

Melissa Etheridge

There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier.

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.

Morrie Schwartz

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.

John Tyler

I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.

John Tyler

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.

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.

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.

Orson Scott Card

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

Scott Adams

You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.

Ray Lewis

You can't take no breaks.

Ray Lewis

Daddy wasn't there for me, so I had to grind every day.

Ray Lewis

The only thing that could pull me away, was hard work.

Ray Lewis

There's a spirit that grabs me, and it's in every one of you guys, but the questions is, how much time are we wasting?

Ray Lewis

Greatness is a lot of small things done well, stacked up on each other.