Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marvin J. Ashton

Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our own mountains.

P. T. Barnum

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

Ovid

There is a deity within us who breathes that divine fire by which we are animated.

Paul Dudley White

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

Paul Brown

When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.

Paul Bloom

If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else thinks that they do.

Paul Bloom

We don't just respond to things as we see them, or feel them, or hear them. Rather, our response is conditioned on our beliefs, about what they really are, what they came from, what they're made of, what their hidden nature is.

Martha Graham

Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.

Martha Beck

You shine for who you are ... because no one can steal your light.

Marshall McLuhan

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

Oswald Chambers

The resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God's purpose.

Mehmet Oz

You have to be going somewhere to have the energy you need to get there.

Michael Schur

People do things with terrible motivations and those motivations are selfish and self-interested and financially driven.

Michael Schur

I think that that the main problem with a lot of social media stuff in terms of ratings is it's a very skewed motivation.

Michael Scheuer

And when you say the policies are what caused this war - American policies - that's not to say that they're wrong. It's not to say that the policies were made by madmen or evil people. It's simply to say that you better understand the motivation of your enemy if you're going to defeat him. And the man who is motivated by a belief that his religion is being attacked by a superpower is much more dangerous than a man who's mad at you because you have women in the workplace.

Michael Schumacher

I retired simply because I didn't have the passion and motivation anymore; I was tired. At the time I thought, 'Well, I had a great time, there is the end.' At some moment, there is the right time to call it an end.

Michael Sandel

There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement, and for that matter, a recipe for intolerance and coercion.

Michael Sandel

A better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to require that people leave their deepest moral convictions outside politics before they enter.

Michael Reagan

If you believe, so will they.

Michael Korda

To succeed, we must first believe that we can.

Markus Zusak

Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.

Marianne Williamson

A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.

Mario Andretti

Desire is the key to motivation.

Mario Andretti

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.

Michael Hansmeyer

If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design?

Michael Hansmeyer

[There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.

George Chuvalo

My motivation has to do with what happened to my family. I want to help young people make important decisions at the most important time in their life. If I didn't do this, it would be like my kids died in vain. I want to help them make the right decisions.

George C. Marshall

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.

Christopher Hitchens

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.

Christopher Hitchens

The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.

Christina Aguilera

You've got to make a decision: Are you going to go down with the situation, or are you going to focus and succeed? My dream...kept me going.

Chris Gardner

If you want something, go get it. Period.

Chris Gardner

Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something.