Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dwayne Johnson

You will go one on one with the Great One!

Dwayne Johnson

In 1995 I had $7 bucks in my pocket and knew two things: I'm broke as hell and one day I won't be. You Can Achieve Anything!

Dwayne Johnson

Wake up determined. Go to bed satisfied.

Dwayne Johnson

There is no substitute for hardwork. Always be humble and hungry.

Dwayne Johnson

One of the most important things you can accomplish is just being yourself.

Dalai Lama

Your motivation should be sincere and your life should be of benefit to some people. That is the main thing. Don't care after my death.

Dalai Lama

On occasions when u feel most hopeless, u must take powerful effort. We must persist in face of failure.

Dalai Lama

unless the direction of science is guided by a consciously ethical motivation, especially compassion, its effects may fail to bring benefit. They may indeed cause great harm.

Dalai Lama

The real troublemakers are anger, jealousy, impatience, and hatred. With them, problems cannot be solved. Though we may have temporary success, ultimately our hatred or anger will create futher difficulties. Anger makes for swift solutions. Yet, when we face problems with compassion, sincerity, and good motivation, our solutions may take longer, but ultimately they are better.

Dalai Lama

The nature of our motivation determines the character of our work.

Dalai Lama

We have to have some form of politics. Politics is a form of resolving conflicts. Politics which comes from sincere motivation is constructive.

Dalai Lama

There is a true feminist movement in Buddhism that relates to the goddess Tārā. Following her cultivation of bodhicitta, the bodhisattva's motivation, she looked upon the situation of those striving towards full awakening and she felt that there were too few people who attained Buddhahood as women. So she vowed, 'I have developed bodhicitta as a woman. For all my lifetimes along the path I vow to be born as a woman, and in my final lifetime when I attain Buddhahood, then, too, I will be a woman.'

Dalai Lama

If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, if you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.

Dalai Lama

When we face problems with compassion, sincerity, and good motivation, our solutions may take longer, but ultimately they are better.

Dalai Lama

Harmony can not thrive in a climate of mistrust, cheating, bullying; mean-spirited competition.

Dalai Lama

If we continue to approach problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties.

Dalai Lama

I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It is the ultimate source of success in life.

Dalai Lama

Every noble work is bound to face problems and obstacles. It is important to check your goal and motivation thoroughly. One should be very truthful, honest, and reasonable. One's actions should be good for others, and for oneself as well. Once a positive goal is chosen, you should decide to pursue it all the way to the end. Even if it is not realized, at least there will be no regret.

Dalai Lama

The creatures that inhabit this earth--be they human beings or animals--are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world.

Dalai Lama

It is important to understand that counterproducti ve actions of body, speech and mind do not arise of their own accord, but spring up in dependence on our motivation. Faulty states of mind give rise to faulty actions. To control negative physical and verbal actions, we need to tame our minds.

Dalai Lama

Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation.

Dalai Lama

The quality of everything we do: our physical actions, our verbal actions, and even our mental actions, depends on our motivation. That's why it's important for us to examine our motivation in our day to day life. If we cultivate respect for others and our motivation is sincere, if we develop a genuine concern for others’ well-being, then all our actions will be positive.

Dalai Lama

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Dolly Parton

I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

Dick Fosbury

I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an Olympic athlete. It always seemed to evolve.

Desmond Tutu

We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.

David Beckham

My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.

David Wong

Start working on whatever you hesitate Because there is an ending to every beginning. When you make it to the end, You will realize the hesitation was a waste of time.

David Oliver

In order to be great, you have to learn from greatness, which is what I have tried to do.

Darrell Royal

The coach is the team, and the team is the coach. You reflect each other.

Daisaku Ikeda

You must not for one moment give up the effort to build up new lives for yourself.

Claude M. Bristol

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Claude Monet

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.