Famous Quotes & Sayings

Esther Hicks

..... your real work is to decide what you want and then to focus upon it. For it is through focusing upon what you want that you will attract it. That is the process of creating

Ernest Hemingway

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Erma Bombeck

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.

Florence Nightingale

Never give nor take an excuse.

Flip Wilson

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

Ferguson Jenkins

Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.

Henry Mintzberg

If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they do. Don't be surprised if you can't relate what you see to those four words.

Henry Moore

The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.

Henry Miller

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

Henri Bergson

Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins their journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of following the crowd and by choosing knowledge over the veils of ignorance.

Helen Keller

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

Helen Keller

The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.

Helen Keller

Look the world straight in the eye.

Cate Blanchett

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

Gerhard Richter

I have no motif, only motivation. I believe that motivation is the real thing, the natural thing, and that the motif is old-fashioned, even reactionary (as stupid as the question about the meaning of life)

Harvey V. Fineberg

Are we at some kind of evolutionary equipoise as a species? Or, are we destined to become something different - something, perhaps, even better adapted to the environment?

Harvey Milk

All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.

James D. Watson

Remember, grab you're future with both hands and mold it into what you want it to be. It's the determined, who create the life they want, while the idle sit by and watch it fade away into nothingness. The future belongs to the exceptional individuals, who can see the light of the future, at the end of the tunnel.

James Bryant Conant

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Jakob Dylan

Tolerance can lead to learning something.

Jaimie Alexander

Television is competitive now, and the great stories live on television right now. I'm finding that I'm enjoying television more than film, these days. That was my motivation to take a TV show.

Jack Youngblood

I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.

Jack White

I cannot judge what motivates people. We are all moved by one of four things or a combination of these four things: money, romance, recognition or survival.

James G. Stavridis

Life is not an on and off switch. You don't have to have a military that is either in hard combat or is in the barracks.

James G. Stavridis

No one person, no one alliance, no one nation, no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.

James Freeman Clarke

Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.

Iyanla Vanzant

Everything God does is purposeful. And since God is in each of us, each of us has a purpose.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Isaac Asimov

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Do not miss the purpose of this life, and do not wait for circumstance to mold or change you fate.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There is nothing we cannot live down, rise above, and overcome.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.