Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Pitino

Learning to live in the present tense-one that's free from the failures of the past and the anxieties of the future-is a wonderful gift, and one you always should be striving for.

Rick Pitino

Nothing meaningful or lasting comes without working hard at it.

Rick Pitino

The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.

Edward de Bono

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

Edward de Bono

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Edward Boyden

The world is your playground - play with a sense of destiny.

Edward Boyden

Life is an adventure - Savor every instant!

Edward Boyden

These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

John F. Kennedy

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

John F. Kennedy

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

John F. Kennedy

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

John F. Kennedy

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

John F. Kennedy

The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.

John F. Kennedy

Not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to develop their talent and their ability and their motivation, to make something of themselves.

John F. Kennedy

There can be no progress if people have no faith in tomorrow.

John F. Kennedy

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

John F. Kennedy

We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Jonathan Larson

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other path, no other way, no day but today.

Jonathan Frakes

Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man and let history make its own judgements.

Jonathan Daniels

Take every failure as an experience, cause to be successful you need experience.

Jonas Salk

Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it.

Jon Stewart

If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.

Julie Foudy

My teammates are the ultimate motivation. They mean everything to me. They are the reason I want to be at my best.

Julie Foudy

Athletics brings out a side of you that is wonderful. It brings out so many good attributes like competing, intensity and playing at the highest level.

Julie Bishop

And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.

Lee Iacocca

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

Lee Iacocca

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Larry Bird

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

Larry Bird

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Larry Bird

I don't think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You've got to keep pushing.

Larry Bird

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

Thierry Henry

The Barcelona youth program is one of the best in the world. At the age of just 27, he is already their record goalscorer in competitive, league, as well as continental games. He is a sensation, but still he can improve. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day. My motivation comes from playing the game I love.