Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lydia M. Child

You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.

Lydia M. Child

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Lucille Ball

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

Lucille Ball

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Lucille Ball

I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

Lucille Ball

I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

Lucinda Williams

The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.

Lucretius

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Louis Kahn

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Louis L'Amour

A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.

Louis L'Amour

Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.

Louis L'Amour

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on

Louis L'Amour

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

Louis L'Amour

I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.

Louis L'Amour

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.

Louis L'Amour

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

Liz Phair

I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror.

Michael Jordan

There is no 'i' in team but there is in win.

Michael Jordan

Don't let them drag you down by rumors just go with what you believe in.

Michael Jordan

Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.

Michael Jordan

Once I made a decision, I never thought about it again.

Michael Jordan

What is love? Love is playing every game as if it's your last!

Michael Jordan

I'm not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.

Michael Jordan

To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.

Michael Jordan

The basketball court for me, during a game, is the most peaceful place I can imagine. On the basketball court, I worry about nothing. When I'm out there, no one can bother me...

Michael Jordan

If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.

Michael Jordan

If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit.Never quit!!!

Michael Jordan

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.

Michael Jordan

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.

Michael Jordan

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.

Michael Jordan

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

Michael Jordan

The minute you get away from fundamentals – whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation – the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you’re doing.

Michael Jordan

The good part about being famous is being able to help people. The hard part is every day you have to be in a good mood, because that is what people expect. You learn to get good at it.