Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Foster Bennett

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

Robert Frost

The tree the tempest with a crash of wood Throws down in front of us is not to bar Our passage to our journey's end for good, But just to ask us who we think we are....

Robert Bly

The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place as easily overlooked as a bee's wing

Richard Marx

My joke, which isn't really a joke, is that there will be one of two tours: the tour for the album that does well, or the tour for the album that stiffs.

Richard Donner

People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip.

Thomas S. Monson

Let us relish life as we live it, find joy in the journey, and share our love with family and friends.

Thomas S. Monson

Life's journey is not traveled on a freeway devoid of obstacles, pitfalls, and snares. Rather, it is a pathway marked by forks and turnings. Decisions are constantly before us. To make them wisely, courage is needed: the courage to say, 'No,' the courage to say, 'Yes.' Decisions do determine destiny. The call for courage comes constantly to each of us. It has ever been so, and so shall it ever be.

Thomas S. Monson

Find joy in the journey.

Thomas S. Monson

The world around you is not equipped to provide the help you need to make it through this often treacherous journey.

Thomas S. Monson

Life is perfect for none of us. Rather than being judgmental and critical of each other, may we have the pure love of Christ for our fellow travelers in this journey through life.

Thomas S. Monson

We cannot truly love God if we do not love our fellow travelers on this mortal journey.

Sandra Bullock

I can't selfishly take journeys anymore because I have to take a little boy along with me.

Satish Kumar

I and a friend of mine called Mannon talked together, and we both decided to walk this journey.

Sargent Shriver

The most important thing that I know about living is love. Nothing surpasses the benefits received by a human being who makes compassion and love the objective of his or her life. For it is only by compassion and love that anyone fulfills successfully their own life’s journey. Nothing equals love.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

You're forced to think about what your goals are and you clarify them because you're taking this journey with another person and you need to be open with your partner.

Sara Paretsky

Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find a voice and a vision - and we must bring our work to an outside world where the market, or public outrage, or even government censorship can destroy our voice.

Sandra Bernhard

I've always allowed myself to go on journeys creatively and emotionally, and never put, like, limits on myself.

Samuel Johnson

He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention upon the comparison of probabilities and the adjustment of expedients, and pause in the choice of his road, till some accident intercepts his journey.

Rob Lowe

When I hear that I realize how quickly time passes and how everybody goes on their journeys and they're always unbelievable and they never go where you think they're going to take you and, quite frankly, it also makes me feel a little old.

Rickey Henderson

My journey as a player is complete.

Ric Keller

On my recent trip to the Mexico border, Border Patrol agents in California told me they have arrested the same coyotes 20 times, but they are not prosecuted.

Robert Duvall

I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.

Robert Duvall

We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.

Ritchie Blackmore

I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.

Richard Rohr

The journey never happens alone.

Richard Le Gallienne

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees.

Vera Wang

I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.

Trevor Dunn

The bungle tour is a bit up in the air due to the fact this at we are getting screwed by our overseas label.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Au contraire..." "What?" Constance demanded. Curtain blinked. ~ The Perilous Journey

Rebecca Solnit

A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.

Rebecca Solnit

Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide with infinite patience the gold from the dross, and present us with the pure and shining coin. Such men may be likened to bees who save us numberless journeys by giving us the fruit of their own.

Samuel Johnson

The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hour of daylight in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages.