Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norman Cousins

Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible.

Norman Cousins

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Nolan Bushnell

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Noel Coward

If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.

Mike Wallace

A smile and a laugh are the duct tape of life; they can fix anything.

Mike Tyson

I'm gonna make sure you talk about me, and your grandkids and kids after that gonna know about me...your great grandkids will say "wow, wasn't that a bizarre individual?"

Mike Tyson

I think the reality of prison is you don't get anything unless you want it in there. Whatever happens to you in prison, this is what you asked for. Nothing happens to you if you don't give that vibe.

Mike Tyson

One of my friends once saw another guy's (criminal) record and said, 'Look, this guy is a born troublemaker, just a loser.' I had to tell him, 'No, that's my record-and it doesn't include my juvenile history.

Mike Tyson

I'll fight anybody my trainer puts me in with because I'm confident I can beat any fighter in the world. If anybody can see I'm almost a master at evading punches coming at me.

Mike Tyson

I can quit boxing now and practically go into any kind of business and I'll be successful just as well as I was in boxing.

Mike Tyson

It's good to be successful and have financial status but if you're only gonna live for the money, you're only gonna reach a certain status and I'm in there for greatness and peace of mind.

Mike Tyson

We wanna believe that we're different than the average guy that's working 9-to-5, that our thoughts are different than his. Our inspirations and desires are different than his, that's why we succeed and he didn't cos we wanna believe we're different, but he just didn't get the break that we had...or he wasted it on something else.

Mike Tyson

These pigeons have been living with each other for 10 or 15 years, but when I throw feed down, they kill each other to get it, and it's the same with the fighters. We love and respect each other...but we need that money.

Mike Tyson

If they don't have that extreme addict personality, you can never understand how a guy can blow 300 or 400 million dollars. If I have to live at the top of the world, I also have to live at the bottom of the ocean. I don't know how to live in the middle of life.

Mike Tyson

How dare these boxers challenge me with their primitive skills? It makes me angry.

Mike Tyson

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

Mike Tyson

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.

Mike Tyson

My power is discombobulatingly devastating. It's ludricrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

Mike Tyson

I had to persevere because this was my life. This championship, this was the stuff I dreamt of all my life, and I wasn't gonna be denied.

Mike Tyson

Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.

Mike Tyson

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

Miguel de Cervantes

Great people create great acts of kindness.

Miguel de Cervantes

Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.

Thomas Jefferson

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Thomas Jefferson

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Thomas Jefferson

One man with courage is a majority.

Thomas Jefferson

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Thomas Jefferson

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Thomas Jefferson

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Robert Holden

Stop talking to people about what you will do; show them instead what your are doing.

Rick Ross

I may not be a role model, but I most definitely could be motivation for a lot of people in the hoods.

Rick Pitino

You are trying not only to reach your potential but to move beyond it. If you are not in the best shape you can be, these things simply become more difficult to achieve.