Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Barry

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'

Alan Watts

Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them.

Alan Perlis

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

Follow the truth to life and love what you do... Be passionate about it to the point where you’re willing to do anything for it.

Brian Tracy

Act as if you were already the person you want most to be.

Carl Jung

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Billy Ray Cyrus

I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.

Charles Horton Cooley

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

Anthony Trollope

I cannot hold with those who want to put down the insignificant chatter of the world

William Shakespeare

A flock of blessings light upon thy back

Eldridge Cleaver

Every highly successful person is a maniac on a mission. Too much agreement kills a chat

Elbert Hubbard

It is only life and love that give love and life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

Deepak Chopra

Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.

Brendon Burchard

The simple fact that you care, that you want to do your best, that you strive to enjoy life and love, this makes you so much more than enough.

Audre Lorde

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

Ram Dass

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success- none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

Alan Cohen

Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future.

Albert Einstein

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

Don Shula

If you're going to take gambles, you must have one thing: self-confidence.

Strive not for perfection..but for lives and loves that matter.

Feminism wasn’t supposed to make us miserable. It was supposed to make us free; to give women the power to shape their fortunes and work for a more just world. Today, women have choices that their grandmothers could not have imagined. The challenge lies in recognizing that having choices carries the responsibility to make them wisely, striving not for perfection or the ephemeral all, but for lives and loves that matter.

E. M. Forster

Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.

Dale Carnegie

Talk to anyone about himself positively and he'll listen without interruption.

Abraham Lincoln

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Aleister Crowley

The Devil' is, historically, the God of any people that one personally dislikes... This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation. He is 'The Devil' of the Book of Thoth, and His emblem is BAPHOMET, the Androgyne who is the hieroglyph of arcane perfection... He is therefore Life, and Love.

Alexander Smith

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

Anthony Burgess

Every dogma has its day.

Chuck Palahniuk

Love and life belongs to great risk.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.

Mark Victor Hansen

Set too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a tendency to be realized all at once.

Mikhail Gorbachev

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Paul Goodman

An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal Few great men could pass personnel