Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodore Roosevelt

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Theodore Roosevelt

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Theodore Roosevelt

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Theodore Roosevelt

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

Theodore Roosevelt

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Theodore Hesburgh

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

Theodor Adorno

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Theodor Adorno

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

Terry McMillan

My mama taught me that anything worth doing in life should be a little scary.

Terry Pratchett

It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?

Terry Pratchett

Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

Terry Pratchett

If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.

Terry Pratchett

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

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.

Margaret Sanger

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

Margaret Sanger

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

Margaret Mead

The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.

Margaret Mead

It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.

Margaret Mead

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

Margaret Mead

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Margaret Mead

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Margaret J. Wheatley

One of the easiest human acts is also the most healing. Listening to someone. Simply listening. Not advising or coaching, but silently and fully listening.

Margaret J. Wheatley

The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.

Margaret Fuller

When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.

Margaret Fuller

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

Margaret Fuller

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

Margaret Fuller

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Marcus Allen

Love yourself. Respect yourself. Never sell yourself short. Believe in yourself regardless of what people think. You can accomplish anything, absolutely anything, if you set your mind to it.

Marcus Buckingham

Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.