Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mignon McLaughlin

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

Johnny Mathis

When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.

John Wycliffe

The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.

John Wooden

Be quick, but don't hurry.

John Wooden

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

John Wooden

The life lessons taught by John Wooden have become legend. Here's a collection of some of the greatest 'Woodenisms.'

John Wooden

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

John Wooden

Be prepared and be honest.

John Wooden

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

John Wooden

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

John Wooden

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

John Wooden

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

John Wooden

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

John Ruskin

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

John Ruskin

Trust thou thy Love: if she be proud, is she not sweet? Trust thou thy love: if she be mute, is she not pure? Lay thou thy soul full in her hands, low at her feet- Fail, Sun and Breath!-yet, for thy peace, she shall endure.

John Ruskin

All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time.

John Ruskin

There is no wealth but life.

Matthew Arnold

Dreams dawn and fly: friends smile and die, Like spring flowers. Our vaunted life is one long funeral. Men dig graves, with bitter tears, For their dead hopes; and all, Mazed with doubts, and sick with fears, Count the hours.

Matthew Arnold

This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.

Matthew Arnold

Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Matthew Arnold

To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.

Matthew Arnold

When Byron's eyes were shut in death, We bow'd our head and held our breath. He taught us little; but our soul Had felt his like a thunder roll. . . . We watch'd the fount of fiery life Which serv'd for that Titanic life.

Matthew Arnold

Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.

Matthew Arnold

With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.

Matthew Arnold

Saw life steadily and saw it whole.

Matthew Arnold

Alas! is even love too weak To unlock the heart, and let it speak? Are even lovers powerless to reveal To one another what indeed they feel? I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference, or with blame reproved; I knew they lived and moved Trick'd in disguises, alien to the rest Of men, and alien to themselves - and yet The same heart beats in every human breast!

Matthew Arnold

Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers in our casual deeds . . . Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose tomorrow the ground won today- Ah, do not we, Wanderer, await it too?

Meg Wolitzer

I always thought it was the saddest and most devastating ending. How you could have these enormous dreams that never get met. How without knowing it you could just make yourself smaller over time. I don't want that to happen to me.

Meg Rosoff

Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror.

Meg Cabot

Someday you're really going to have to describe to me in more detail what life is like on the planet you live on. Because it sounds really great, and I'd like to visit there one day.

Meg Cabot

Remember... life is short. Each moment you have is precious. Treasure every second. Don't spend them doing anything you don't love.

Maxwell Maltz

People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to...to work for and hope for.

Maxwell Maltz

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.