Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Allen

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

James Allen

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

James Allen

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

James Allen

Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.

James Allen

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

James Anthony Froude

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

James Anthony Froude

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Jacques Maritain

A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.

Friedrich Schiller

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

Friedrich Schiller

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

Friedrich Schiller

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

George Gilder

Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.

Jon Krakauer

Its not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.

Jon Krakauer

The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.

Jon English

You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it - there's no turning back.

Jon Bon Jovi

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.

Joko Beck

We are just living this moment; we don't have to live 150,000 moments at once. We are only living one. That's why I say you might as well practice with each moment.

Johnny Weir

It's of very little importance to me that I was born gay. It doesn't make me a better athlete, it doesn't make me a stronger person, it doesn't really do anything to enhance my life. It's just something I was born with, the same as green eyes.

Johnny Carson

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Cash

My arms are too short to box with God.

Lynn Johnston

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Ludwig van Beethoven

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'

Ludwig van Beethoven

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?