Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hank Aaron

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

Hannah Arendt

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Hannah Arendt

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

Guy deBord

Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.

Guy Finley

The great ones in life are not those who are handed silver spoons. Their excellence comes from digging into the raw ore of their own character, through hard work, persistence and faith turning whatever they touch into gold.

Guy Finley

If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly.

He's very motivated. There is a little more motivation for him to show he's not done.

George Burns

It's better to be happy doing something you love, even if you don't find success right away.

George Bernard Shaw

This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

George Bernard Shaw

I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

George Bernard Shaw

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

George Bernard Shaw

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

George Bernard Shaw

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

Gary Lockwood

By developing balance in your life, you will increase your energy, motivation, and your sense of satisfaction. In short, your happiness. Most people are as happy as they choose to be. May you choose to be very happy in 1998! SUCCESS to You . . .

Frederick William Faber

Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.

Fred Couples

When you're prepared, you're more confident. When you have a strategy, you're more comfortable.

Fred Astaire

Oh, God! That boy moves in a very exceptional way. That's the greatest dancer of the century.

Fred Astaire

I just put my feet in the ground and move them around.

Franz Kafka

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.

Erich Fromm

Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking processes attempt to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed to reflect reality; it is the map we use for organizing our life.

Erich Fromm

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Jason Richardson

Even though we're not in the playoffs, we still have motivation to go out and play hard. Let people know we're serious, that we're not cashing it in. We still want to win games.

Johnny Depp

the teachers, the soundtrack and the proper motivation for my life.

Thomas Fuller

A good garden may have some weeds.

Thomas Fuller

Bad excuses are worse than none.

There's some motivation there that we could do it, too.

It's tough to come back. But you've got to find motivation.

Scott Lynch

Everyone on the team is very, very motivated,

Vince Young

No. I smile. That is motivation for me.

Bunker Roy

We went to Ladakh ... and we asked this woman, 'What was the benefit you had from solar electricity?' And she thought for a minute and said, 'It's the first time I can see my husband's face in winter.'

Bunker Roy

I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me.

Bum Phillips

Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.

James Earl Jones

The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and what could be again.