Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted Turner

We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial.

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.

Neal Shusterman

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

Neale Donald Walsch

It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.'

Morihei Ueshiba

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

Lauryn Hill

As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.

Lisa Ling

You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn't want to let fail.

John Taylor Gatto

Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it.

John Taylor Gatto

...good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone.

John Sexton

It was an experience that was exceptional. People frequently ask what it was like and it truly was inspiring. Sometimes during his lifetime, people would try and put him on a pedestal and that's not where he wanted to be, but he was really a great individual.

John Robbins

The level of consumption that we identify with success is utterly unsustainable. We're gobbling up the world.

John O'Hurley

When we leap, we must leap as though the net will appear. A leap in life, however big or small, is an act of commitment with the expectation of success.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.

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.

Henry David Thoreau

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Henry Ford

There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity.

Henry Ford

I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was twenty-six. Religion offered nothing to the point. Even work could not give me complete satisfaction. Work is futile if we cannot utilize the experience we collect in one life in the next. When I discovered reincarnation . . . time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock. . . . I would like to communicate to others the calmness that the long view of life gives to us.

Malcolm Turnbull

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.

Malcolm X

Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.

Malcolm X

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

John C. Maxwell

Decision-making takes care of goal-setting, but discipline also takes care of goal-getting. Decisions and discipline can't be separated; one is worthless without the other.