Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paulo Coelho

Even if you follow other people's advice and model successful people and their blueprints, you will still fail if you don't have confidence in yourself. Everything - absolutely everything - starts with you.

Paulo Coelho

You can achieve anything if you believe in yourself. But the opposite is also true; without strong self-belief you will not go far.

Paulo Coelho

A warrior takes every opportunity to teach himself.

Paulo Coelho

Remember the saying, What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger? It's true!

Paulo Coelho

I've never been as happy as I am now, because I followed the signs, I was patient, and I know that this is going to change everything.

Marissa Mayer

What is clear is that users own their data and should have control of how their data is used.

Mariah Carey

The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that get people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.

May Sarton

Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.

Maya Angelou

For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

Maya Angelou

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

Maya Angelou

Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.

Maya Angelou

I'm grateful to be of use. I will not be misused or abused, but I will be of use to anybody.

Maya Angelou

The first thing I do in the morning when I awaken is say, 'Thank you, Lord!' I'm grateful to be alive, and I'm going to try to tell the truth as well as I know and tell it as eloquently as I can so that people can hear it.

Maya Angelou

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

Maya Angelou

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

Maya Angelou

We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

Maya Angelou

I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.

Maya Angelou

Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.

Maya Angelou

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Maya Angelou

When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness. I'm trying for that. But I'm also trying for the language. I'm trying to see how it can really sound. I really love language. I love it for wate it does for us, how it allows us to explain the pain and the glory, the nuances and delicacies of our existence. And then it allows us to laugh, allows us to show wit. Real wit is shown in language. We need language.

Maya Angelou

Each time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven books, but each time I think, ‘Uh oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody and they’re going to find me out.

Mario Cuomo

You will not be able to tell that they are capable of greatness until you provide them with a packed house, a 3-and-2 count and the game is on the line.

Mario Cuomo

Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?

Mario Cuomo

Most of us have achieved levels of affluence and comfort unthought of two generations ago. We've never had it so good, most of us. Nor have we ever complained so bitterly about our problems.

Michael Caine

I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.

Michael Caine

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

Meredith Vieira

You will throughout your life have people who will tell you that you're not good enough. Maybe they're jealous. Maybe they think you aren't. Maybe they've had a bad day. But ultimately you have to believe in yourself.

Melanie Chisholm

Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It's been very inspiring. It's like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting.

Mary Kay Ash

Never give up, because you never know if the next try is going to be the one that works.

Mary Kay Ash

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Martina Hingis

I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.

Marie Osmond

I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.

Marge Piercy

We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways.