Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lou Holtz

I'm not a disciplinarian. I simply enforce other people's decisions.

Lou Holtz

Attitude determines how well you do it.

Lou Holtz

It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down.

Lou Holtz

In adversity, there is opportunity. Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity. Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

Lou Holtz

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

Lou Holtz

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

Lou Holtz

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Lou Holtz

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Lou Holtz

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

Lou Holtz

In life, be a participant, not a spectator.

Lou Holtz

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Lou Holtz

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Lou Holtz

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

Lou Holtz

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Lou Holtz

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Lou Holtz

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Lord Chesterfield

Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions.... Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself what such and such an amusement leads to, as it is essential to have an objective in everything you do. Any pastime that contributes nothing to bodily strength or to mental alertness is a totally ridiculous, not to say, idiotic, pleasure.

Lord Chesterfield

The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them.

Malcolm Forbes

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

Malcolm Gladwell

It changes how people read you if you believe in God. It gives insight into your motivation, how you look at problems and how you deal with people.

Malcolm Gladwell

Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.

Malcolm Gladwell

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig. (150)

Malcolm Gladwell

I always resist seeing my own personal motivation in my work, but I guess it must be there on some level. And I do feel very much that my life follows the kinds of things I talk about in my books. I've always thought of myself as an insanely lucky person, so perhaps the success of my first two books led me to want to examine this phenomenon on some unconscious level.

Majora Carter

Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.

Majora Carter

It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums and other tributes to all of our collective failures. It is time that we start building living monuments to hope and possibility.

Majora Carter

As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility - which I do.

Malala Yousafzai

I reassured my mother that it didn’t matter to me if my face was not symmetrical. Me, who had always cared about my appearance, how my hair looked! But when you see death, things change. “It doesn’t matter if I can’t smile or blink properly,” I told her. “I’m still me, Malala. The important thing is God has given me my life.

Malala Yousafzai

We human beings don't realize how great God is. He has given us an extraordinary brain and a sensitive loving heart. He has blessed us with two lips to talk and express our feelings, two eyes which see a world of colors and beauty, two feet which walk on the road of life, two hands to work for us, a nose which smells the beauty of fragrance, and two ears to hear the words of love.

Malala Yousafzai

I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.

Magic Johnson

Once Michael gets up there he says, 'Well, maybe I'll just hang up here in the air for a while, just sit back.' Then all of a sudden, he says, 'Well, maybe I'll 360. No I changed my mind. I'll go up on the other side.' He's just incredible.

Magic Johnson

When I'm under the gun and I've got pressure on me, I don't panic. I look for the right solution, and then I go for it.

Magic Johnson

If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.

Magic Johnson

I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.