Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Virtue is its own reward.

Mark Twain

Your actions speak so much louder than words.

Leonardo DiCaprio

My mother is a walking miracle.

Oscar Wilde

The final mystery is oneself.

Paul Rand

Don't try to be original; just try to be good.

Pascal Lamy

Globalization is incredibly efficient but also so far incredibly unjust.

Padma Lakshmi

All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.

Leah Busque

I wake up every morning and think to myself, 'How far can I push the company forward in the next 24 hours?

Larry Page

If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

Larry Wall

Laziness is a programmers main virtue.

Larry Wall

True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

L. Frank Baum

There is no place like home.

Pablo Picasso

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

Patti LaBelle

When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.

Gloria Steinem

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

Ken Burns

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past

Ken Blanchard

Leadership is anytime you seek to influence the thinking, behavior, or development of others.

Ken Blanchard

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

Kay Yow

When life kicks you, let it kick you forward.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

Rachel Weisz

I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.

Michelle Obama

You all have opportunities and skills and education that so many folks who came before you never could have dreamed of. So just imagine the kind of impact that you're going to make. Imagine how you can inspire those around you to reach higher and complete their own education.

Michelle Obama

We've got a responsibility to live up to the legacy of those who came before us by doing all that we can to help those who come after us.

Sholom Aleichem

No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

Shonda Rhimes

I remember saying, very almost jokingly, I'm going to take over the world through television, that's my plan. And I said it to my agent, and I said it to my friends, and I said it to myself.

Shonda Rhimes

You want to be a writer? A writer is someone who writes every day, so start writing. You don't have a job? Get one. Any job. Don't sit at home waiting for the magical opportunity. Who are you? Prince William? No. Get a job. Go to work. Do something until you can do something else.

Shonda Rhimes

You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

Sherman Alexie

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

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.