Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maya Angelou

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

Maya Angelou

And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.

Pat Metheny

The Unity Band project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.

Paula Malcomson

If you're lucky enough to get to play a character for a long time, it's life-changing.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Max Lucado

God is kind, but he is not soft. He takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life change.

Maya Angelou

If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape

Maya Angelou

I might have it at six-fifteen a.m. just as soon as I get in, but usually it's about eleven o'clock when I'll have a glass of sherry.

Maya Angelou

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Maya Angelou

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'

Marianne Williamson

Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.

Mary Kay Ash

I've often said that we are doing something far more important than just selling cosmetics; we are changing lives.

Michael Johnson

Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.

Mark Cuban

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success.

Mark Cuban

Treat your customers like they own you. Because they do.

Neale Donald Walsch

All change in life comes from within. It is what's in humanity's soul, not what's in humanity's wallet, that will purchase our freedom from humanity's suffering.

Harvey Mackay

our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we read

Henry David Thoreau

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

Malcolm Mclaren

What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.

James Altucher

People build up a life, it becomes unsatisfactory, and they want to figure out how to change it like an outfit on a doll. But you can’t change life from the outside. We all know this now.

Jake Gyllenhaal

My experience on 'Jarhead' was life changing.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

It is remarkable how liberating it feels to be able to see that your thoughts are just thoughts and that they are not 'you' or 'reality.' For instance, if you have the thought that you have to get a certain number of things done today and you don't recognize it as a thought but act as if it's the 'the truth,' then you have created a reality in that moment in which you really believe that those things must all be done today.

Jon Anderson

I nearly died three times in 2008, and when you go through those experiences, you realize that you're blessed every day that you wake up. My world changed, my life changed, and with the help of my wife Jane, I was able to survive.

Jim Valvano

Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.

Stephen Levine

Death is just a change in lifestyles.

Randy Alcorn

Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization are unlimited. They allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, starve and go to hell.

Tana French

I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.

Tammin Sursok

In Australia, there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed.

Stephanie Mills

A deep analysis judges technology morally - from its conception and intention to the totality of its consequences, knowing that all "raw materials" once were someone's home or sustenance, that extraction and manufacture at industrial scale reduce landscapes and their human beings, that distribution, employment, and disposal of technologies change lives in unpredictable ways.

Warren G. Bennis

In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital.

Robert H. Schuller

I am humanly unable to correct my negative self-image until I encounter a life-changing experience with non-judgmental love bestowed upon me by a Person whom I admire so much that to be unconditionally accepted by Him is to be born again.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I don't judge others. I say if you feel good with what you're doing, let your freak flag fly.

Sandra Bullock

My life changes dramatically every time I get up out of bed. After my proposal life changed in that I wasn't asked to change. I always thought that marriage meant someone was going to ask you to stop being who you were. And I met someone who not only wants me to be who I am but likes it. So, my life changed in that my views towards marriage stopped being morbid. I found I was ready to be a good partner where I don't think I was a very good partner to people before. I stepped up my game.