Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Herbert

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.

Gene Mauch

Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking

Gene Mauch

Most one-run games are lost, not won.

Gene Kelly

I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer and taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.

Friedrich Nietzsche

No journey is too great, when one finds what one seeks.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

Jenna McCarthy

Merely watching a romantic comedy causes relationship satisfaction to plummet. Apparently, the bitter realization that maybe it could happen to us, but it obviously hasn't and it probably never will, makes our lives seem unbearably grim in comparison.

Jean Nidetch

You can do anything you want to. Follow your dreams; because if you say you can't do it, you'll spend the rest of your life proving it.

Gerald R. Ford

Personal excellence can be achieved by a visionary goal, through planning, dedicated execution, and total follow-through.

Gerald R. Ford

There is an old saying, The harder you try the luckier you get. I kind of like that definition of luck.

Jessica Savitch

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

Jessamyn West

People who keep journals have life twice

Jess Walter

All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is real; it's all part of the story we tell. But here's the thing: it's our goddamned story!

Hubert H. Humphrey

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Howard Cosell

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.

Hugh Jackman

Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.

Hugh Jackman

Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.

Hugh Jackman

Giving people a hand up, not a handout, is the way forward.

Do not go through life; grow through life.

Eric Cantona

Certainly take the advice of others but always, always be yourself.

Eric Cantona

I play with passion and fire. I have to accept that sometimes this fire does harm.

Eminem

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

Eminem

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.

Eminem

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Eminem

Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity. To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment. Would you capture it or just let it slip?

Elon Musk

Well, my motivation behind Tesla is really to do as much good as possible for the environment and the electric-vehicle revolution. I think there is still a lot of work to do and if we were to sell to a big company, I'm not sure it would progress at the same pace.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Jason Statham

Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and a half of nonsense.

Jason Kidd

A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.