Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Buckingham

If you want to be clear, act.

Marcus Buckingham

You grow most in your areas of greatest strength. You will improve the most, be the most creative, be the most inquisitive, and bounce back the fastest in those areas where you have already shown some natural advantage over everyone else your strengths. This doesn't mean you should ignore your weaknesses. It just means you'll grow most where you're already strong.

Kin Hubbard

Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.

Kin Hubbard

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Michael Lewis

Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them.

Michael Bloomberg

I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.

Michael Bloomberg

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

Melinda Gates

Think, for a moment, about our educational ladder. We've strengthened the steps lifting students from elementary school to junior high, and those from junior high to high school. But, that critical step taking students from high school into adulthood is badly broken. And it can no longer support the weight it must bear.

Melinda Gates

Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.

Melissa Etheridge

There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier.

Melissa Etheridge

The sign says do not enter, no trespassing allowed. With visions of redemption I walk against the crowd.

Melissa Etheridge

I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!'

Melissa Etheridge

You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

Melissa Marr

Happiness is a choice.

Michelangelo

The hand that follows intellect can achieve.

Michelangelo

He who follows another will never overtake him

Michelangelo

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

Michelangelo

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

Michelangelo

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

Michelangelo

Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.

Michelangelo

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Michael Owen

If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.

Michael Palin

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life

Norman Vincent Peale

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

Norman Vincent Peale

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

Norman Vincent Peale

Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only the best, be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

Norman Vincent Peale

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Neal Stephenson

The imperative to develop new technologies and implement them on a heroic scale no longer seems like the childish preoccupation of a few nerds with slide rulers - It's the only way for the human race to escape from its current predicaments - Too bad we've forgotten how to do it

Neale Donald Walsch

... if you repeat a thought, or say a word, over and over again-not once, not twice, but dozens, hundreds, thousands of times-do you have any idea of the creative power of that? A thought or a word expressed and expressed and expressed becomes just that-expressed. That is, pushed out. It becomes outwardly realized. It becomes your physical reality.

Neale Donald Walsch

What you do for your Self, you do for another. What you do for another, you do for the Self. This is because you and the other are one. And this is because...there is naught but You.

Neale Donald Walsch

No obligation. Nor any restriction or limitation, nor any guidelines or rules. Nor are you bound by any circumstances or situations, nor constrained by any Code or law. Nor are you punishable for any offense, nor capable of any-for there is no such thing as being "offensive" in the eyes of God.