Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Templeton

It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

John Steinbeck

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

Martin Luther

Man is man because he is free to operate within a framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives. He is distinguished from animals by his freedom to do evil or to do good and to walk the high road of beauty or tread the low road of ugly degeneracy.

Nick Lampson

Congress should stop treating veterans like they're asking for a hand out when it comes to the benefits they were promised, and they should realize that, were it not for these veterans, there would be nothing to hand out.

Seth Godin

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.

Seth Godin

Marketing begins before the product is launched.

Seth Godin

The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.

Ray Charles

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

Tom DeLay

Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.

Solange Knowles

It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music.

Sloane Crosley

Cohabitation seems a greater leap in cities because it's all the harder to extract oneself if things turn sour. It's what keeps otherwise functional adults living with their mothers.

Rajneesh

Relaxation is the point. And if you can relax with an enlightened person his enlightenment will start penetrating you, because when you are relaxed you become porous. When you are tense you are closed; when you relax he will enter

Rajneesh

Let-go means no competition, no struggle, no fight... just relaxing with existence, wherever it leads. Not trying to control your future, not trying to control consequences, but allowing them to happen... not even thinking about them. Let-go is in the present; consequences are tomorrow. And let-go is such a delightful experience, a total relaxation, a deep synchronicity with existence

Soichiro Honda

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

Sojourner Truth

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

Theodore Roosevelt

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

Marcus Buckingham

You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.

Marcus Buckingham

Everyone can probably do at least one thing better than ten thousand other people.

Marcus Buckingham

True individuality can be lonely.

Marcus Buckingham

We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.

Marcus Buckingham

Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.

Marcus Buckingham

The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.

Kevin Systrom

I think not focusing on money makes you sane, because in the long run it can probably drive you crazy.

Michael Bolton

Dr. King is so inspiring, so impressive, so moving as a human being.

Melissa McCarthy

When I believe in something, I'm like a dog with a bone.

Melinda Gates

Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.

Melinda Gates

If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.

Ray Bradbury

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Randy Pausch

Don't bail; the best pieces of gold are at the bottom of the barrel of crap.

Randy Pausch

Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress. When you're pissed off at someone and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little more time and they almost always will impress you.

Henry A. Kissinger

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

Helen Hunt Jackson

By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.

Henry David Thoreau

Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventure. Let the noon find you by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at home. There are no larger fields than these, no worthier games than may here be played.