Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meryl Streep

Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.

Nhat Hanh

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

Peter McWilliams

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Orson Scott Card

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

Ram Dass

We gain internal freedom through external actions.

Billy Graham

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Billy Graham

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Billy Graham

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Kurt Vonnegut

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.

Henri Frederic Amiel

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

If we are going to do anything significant with life, we sometimes have to move away from it- beyond the usual measurements. We must occasionally follow visions and dreams.

B. R. Ambedkar

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Bill Shoemaker

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

Bill Cosby

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

C. S. Lewis

You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while you are making them you cannot see them. Good people know about both bad and evil; bad people do not know about either.

C. S. Lewis

Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you - the part that chooses - into something a little different than what it was before. Taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature.

C. S. Lewis

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Carrie Brownstein

To me, curiosity is married to optimism. And that's where a lot of my motivation comes from. A lot of my way out of depression and anxiety is that intersection between optimism and curiosity. Because it means taking a step forward with the hope that there will be discovery.

Carrie Underwood

I can do everything I want to do.

Carl Sagan

Perhaps, in retrospect, there would be little motivation even for malevolent extraterrestrials to attack the Earth; perhaps, after a preliminary survey, they might decide it is more expedient just to be patient for a little while and wait for us to self-destruct.

Arsene Wenger

For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal.

Anthony Storr

Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed.

Bill Bowerman

If you have a body, you are an athlete!

Bill Bowerman

There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

Bill Bradley

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

I think I got all this motivation from her.

John Lawson

I think this will be motivation for us.

Birdman

One of my motivations in life is to be a billionaire.

Bjorn Borg

It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.

Betty Friedan

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.

Bill Gates

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

Bob Schieffer

When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, 'Putt for one hundred dollars'.