Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maya Angelou

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

Maya Angelou

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Maya Angelou

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Maya Angelou

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Maya Angelou

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

Maxim Gorky

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Max de Pree

A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.

Max de Pree

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

Max Beerbohm

Improvisation is the essence of good talk. Heaven defend us from the talker who doles out things prepared for us; but let heaven not less defend us from the beautiful spontaneous writer who puts his trust in the inspiration of the moment.

Maurice Chevalier

A man must have his dreams - memory dreams of the past and eager dreams of the future. I never want to stop reaching for new goals.

Matthew Perry

The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything.

Matthew Perry

So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do everything?

Matthew Perry

There's nothing better than a world where everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.

Matthew McConaughey

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

Mark Russell

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

Marilyn vos Savant

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Marilyn vos Savant

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

Marilyn vos Savant

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Maria Montessori

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

Maria Montessori

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

Matsuo Basho

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.

Matsuo Basho

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

Matsuo Basho

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Mary Ellen Chase

It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person - beguiled, enchanted.

Pat Riley

All of us have at least one great voice deep inside. People are products of their environment. A lucky few are born into situations in which positive messages abound. Others grow up hearing messages of fear and failure, which they must block out so the positive can be heard. But the positive and courageous voice will always emerge, somewhere, sometime, for all of us. Listen for it, and your breakthroughs will come.

Pat Riley

The key to success is to learn to do something right and then do it right every time.

Pat Riley

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Pablo Casals

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

Pablo Casals

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Pablo Neruda

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Pablo Neruda

Of all the fires, love is the only inexhaustible one.

Pablo Neruda

Perhaps the earth can teach us As when everything seems dead And later proves to be alive