Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ursula K. Le Guin

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

Ty Cobb

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

Vladimir Putin

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.

William Graham Sumner

Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.

William Barclay

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

William Arthur Ward

The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.

William Arthur Ward

Another fresh new year is here. Another year to live! To Banish worry, doubt and fear, to love and give

William Arthur Ward

Do you depend on others for motivation - or can you motivate yourself?

William Arthur Ward

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible

William Arthur Ward

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

William Arthur Ward

What you believe is more important than what you possess. What you live is more lasting than what you profess. Whom you inspire is more significant than whom you impress.

William Arthur Ward

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

Wilfred Grenfell

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not 'to have and to hold' but "to give and serve."

Wilferd Peterson

The art of thinking is the greatest art of all, for 'as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.' The thinker knows he is today where his thoughts have taken him and that he is building his future by the quality of the thoughts he thinks.

Wilferd Peterson

He who hopes to avoid all failure and misfortune is trying to live in a fairyland; the wise man realistically accepts failures as a part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of 'nothing attempted, nothing gained' and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Wilferd Peterson

You open doors when you open books... doors that swing wide to unlimited horizons of knowledge, wisdom, and inspiration that will enlarge the dimensions of your life.

Wilferd Peterson

Love is the dynamic motivation behind every worthy purpose; it is the upward thrust that lifts men to the heights.

Wilferd Peterson

Success is relative and individual and personal. It is your answer to the problem of making your minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years add up to a great life.

Wilferd Peterson

Through books you can start today where the great thinkers of yesterday left off, because books have immortalized man's knowledge. Thinkers, dead a thousand years, are as alive in their books today as when they walked the earth.

Wilferd Peterson

Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth.

Wilferd Peterson

The leader sees things through the eyes of his followers. He puts himself in their shoes and helps them make their dreams come true. The leader does not say, "Get going!" Instead he says, "Let's go!" and leads the way. He does not walk behind with a whip; he is out in front with a banner.

Waylon Jennings

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

W. Somerset Maugham

Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself.

W. Somerset Maugham

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Young Jeezy

I'm a motivational speaker.

Yann Martel

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

Wynton Marsalis

The best way to be, is to do.

Wolfgang Tillmans

My work is aimed at creating a world in which I wish to live. Consequently, it is about creating ideals with the aid of realistic techniques. My most fundamental motivation is a desire for unity, fusion and sense of community.

Willie Stargell

Don't be sharp or flat; just be natural.

William Osler

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

William P. Young

I have moments that aren't too bad, but there's always something I'm struggling with, or feeling guilty about. I just figured I needed to try harder, but I find it difficult to sustain that motivation.

William Penn

There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.