Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oprah Winfrey

The life you want is waiting to rise up to meet you ... Will you accept it? Do you feel worthy enough to accept it?

Oprah Winfrey

It is your life and it is worth risking everything to make it yours.

Oprah Winfrey

Never for a moment allow your greatness to interfere with your goodness.

Oprah Winfrey

You are awareness disguised as a human being.

Oprah Winfrey

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

Oprah Winfrey

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

Oprah Winfrey

The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.

Oprah Winfrey

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

Margaret Atwood

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

Margaret Atwood

You can think clearly only with your clothes on.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Virtue is its own reward.

Mark Twain

Your actions speak so much louder than words.

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.

Mae West

Look your best - who said love is blind?

Mae West

When in doubt take a bath

Madonna Ciccone

I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations.

Madonna Ciccone

I laugh at myself. I don't take myself completely seriously. I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to... you have to laugh, especially at yourself.

Lucille Ball

Love yourself first and everything falls into line.

Liza Minnelli

Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream.

Michael Dell

Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.

Mia Hamm

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

Mia Hamm

I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger.

Marilyn Monroe

Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.

Marilyn Monroe

But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.

Marilyn Monroe

Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??

Marilyn Monroe

I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

Marilyn Monroe

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.

Marilyn Monroe

I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.