Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woodrow Wilson

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Woodrow Wilson

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

Woodrow Wilson

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

Woodrow Wilson

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.

Saint Augustine

In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails.

Saint Augustine

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

Saint Augustine

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Saint Augustine

Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?

Wole Soyinka

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

Wole Soyinka

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

Wilma Rudolph

The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

Wilma Rudolph

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

Wilma Rudolph

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.

Wilt Chamberlain

Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.

Wilson Mizner

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

Wilson Mizner

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

Will Rogers

What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness.

Will Rogers

Don't invite me if you don't want me.

Will Rogers

Every man gets an opportunity once in a lifetime.

Will Rogers

A successful outcome shows what hard work, perseverance and taking advantage of your opportunities will do for you.

Will Rogers

I have often said in answer to inquiries as to how I got away with kidding some of our public men, that it was because I liked all of them personally, and that if there was no malice in your heart there could be none in your "Gags", and I have always said I never met a man I dident like.

Will Rogers

I am proud of the fact there is not a human being that I have got it in for. I never met a man I didn't like.

Will Rogers

We live in an age of 'urge'. We do nothing till somebody shoves us.

Will Rogers

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Will Rogers

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

Will Rogers

George Bernard Shaw of England stopped over just long enough to make one speech in Bombay, India, started a war and 100 Indians killed each other. That's what I call good speech-making. The only enthusiasm any of our speakers can rouse is a demand to kill the speaker.

Will Rogers

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

Will Rogers

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Will Rogers

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

Will Rogers

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

Will Rogers

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

Will Rogers

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.