Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rita Coolidge

I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.

Tom Selleck

Unless you treat failure as part of the journey, you're never going to get anywhere.

Thomas Bernhard

... Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on a journey, then we must do so and not worry about our condition, even if it's the worst possible condition, because, if it is, we're finished anyway, whether we go on the journey or not, and it's better to die having made the journey we're been longing for than to be stifled by our longing.

Vijay Singh

My journey has been a very slow build-up. Each year has been a step upward. I've never actually gone backward.

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.

Rumi

Every leaf that grows will tell you: what you sow will bear fruit, so if you have any sense my friend, don't plant anything but Love.

Rumi

You lack a foot to travel? Then journey into yourself - that leads to transformation of dust into pure gold.

Rumi

There is only one search: wandering... no dogma and no heresy.

Rumi

Love is that flame that once kindled burns everything, and only the mystery and the journey remain.

Rumi

Embark on the journey of LOVE. It takes you from yourself to yourself.

Rumi

Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey!

Tom Peters

As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a WOW outcome!

Tom Robbins

I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.

Tom Barrett

As we live our human lives, let us be like the water. Let us be conscious of the flow. Let us not forget the great ground of being that draws us on through life. Let us live in a knowing hope, aware that all being is in transition, that all movement is back to the source. Let us treat those around us as reminders of our illusionary individuality. We know that they are us and we are them connected in ways we cannot fathom. Let us grow in compassion for all beings, for they share our journey.

Steve Aoki

Dance music is an emotional journey. It's how well you can make people feel something that they haven't felt.

Steve Almond

It is certainly true that cooking is therapeutic, creative and all those other faintly creepy self-helpish words. I would love to tell you that learning to cook was part of my journey toward actualization. I would love to tell Oprah this. I would love to tell Oprah this while weeping. But I learned to cook for a much simpler reason: in the abject hope that people would spend time with me if I put good things in their mouth. It is, in other words (like practically everything else I do), a function of my desperation for emotional connection and acclaim.

I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe.

Viktor E. Frankl

You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.

Usher

Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.

Susan Jeffers

Most of us do not 'sculpt' our lives. We accept what comes our way, then we gripe about it.

Richard Mitchell

Education, I am convinced, must be nothing more than this: The journey toward the limits of Reason, if any there be.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey

T. Harv Eker

'Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind' was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within both my personal and professional life.

T. S. Eliot

But what have I, but what have I, my friend, To give you, what can you receive from me? Only the friendship and the sympathy Of one about to reach her journey's end.

T. S. Eliot

The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.

T. S. Eliot

The journey, Not the destination matters...

T. S. Eliot

Those who arrive at the end of the journey are not those who began.

Sylvester Stallone

I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking.

Taye Diggs

It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me.