Famous Quotes & Sayings

John F. Kennedy

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

John F. Kennedy

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

John F. Kennedy

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

John F. Kennedy

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

John F. Kennedy

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

John F. Kennedy

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

Jonathan Kozol

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

Jonathan Ive

It's just easier to talk about product attributes that you can measure with a number. Focus on price, screen size, that's easy. But there's a more difficult path, and that's to make better products, ones where maybe you can't measure their value empirically.

Jonathan Ive

It's actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you to remain unapologetically consumed by it. Be faithful to your gift and very confident in its value.

Jonathan Davis

It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community.

Jonathan Edwards

Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.

Jonah Lomu

It's a really exciting time to be involved in Welsh rugby.

Jonas Salk

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

Jonas Salk

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

Jon Stewart

Why do I have to follow CNN on Twitter? If I want to follow CNN, I can follow them on CNN.

Jon Stewart

How do you know what is the right path to choose to get the result that you desire? The honest answer is this: You won't. And accepting that greatly eases the anxiety of your life experience.

Joyce Carol Oates

It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.

Kate Winslet

Life is short, and it is here to be lived.

Katarina Witt

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Paracelsus

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.

Paracelsus

Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.

Paracelsus

Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.

Paracelsus

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

Paramahansa Yogananda

I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Whenever you want to produce something, do not depend upon the outside source: go deep and seek the Infinite Source.

Owen D. Young

I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.

The greatest results in life are usually attained by common sense and perseverance.

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.

Owen Wilson

You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.

Ovid

The end doesn't justify the means.

Ovid

Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.

Ovid

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop