Famous Quotes & Sayings

Niklas Zennstrom

If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6 pm - last thing at night you'll send emails, first thing in the morning you'll read emails, and you'll wake up in the middle of the night. But it's hugely rewarding as you're fulfilling something for yourself.

Nikki Giovanni

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

Nikki Giovanni

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

Nick Offerman

I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.

Nick Hornby

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time.

Matt Damon

The only way I can describe it-at the end of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, you know how his heart grows like five times? Everything is full; it's just full all the time.

Matt Damon

History is change happening one person at a time.

Matt Damon

My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her.

Matt Damon

Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.

Matt Damon

I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.

Mary Lou Retton

Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off.

Mary McCarthy

We are the hero of our own story.

Marvin J. Ashton

A truly wise person will constantly move forward, striving for self-improvement, knowing that daily repentance is needed for progress. He will realize the good life is simply conforming to a standard of right and justice. The joys of happiness can only be realized by living lofty principles.

Marvin J. Ashton

True happiness is not made in getting something. True happiness is becoming something. This can be done by being committed to lofty goals. We cannot become something without commitment.

Mark Twain

Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change its mind - your heart stands still, your breath hangs fire, your legs forget to work.

Nicholas Sparks

Without suffering, there'd be no compassion.

Nicholas Sparks

Truth only means something when it's hard to admit.

Nicholas Sparks

Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys.

Nicholas Sparks

When you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through.

Nicholas Sparks

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

Nicholas Sparks

A living poem" had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

Nicholas Sparks

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it

Nicholas Sparks

I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.

Nicholas Sparks

You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.

Neal A. Maxwell

Perfect love is perfectly patient.

Neal A. Maxwell

Do not write a check with your tongue that your actions cannot cash.

Muhammad Iqbal

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

Muhammad Iqbal

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

Muhammad Ali

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Muhammad Ali

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Muhammad Ali

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

Muhammad Ali

Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

Muhammad Ali

Don't count the days, make the days count.