Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ricky Hatton

My first world title gave me the confidence to go and do bigger and better things.

Ric Flair

To be the man, you gotta beat the man!

Richard Rorty

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

Red Auerbach

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

Robert De Niro

If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself.

Robert Burton

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Roald Dahl

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

Richard Preston

What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory quality of human time and the brevity of human life - the necessity to love.

Richard L. Evans

What is it that makes us suppose that we can more easily do twice tomorrow what we didn't do once today!

Richard Courant

It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.

Tucker Carlson

Ron Karenga wrote a book back in 1968, and in that book, he said that the reason, part of his motivation for starting Kwanzaa was because he felt that Christianity was the white man religion, and he didn't like Jews, and so he made up this lie. And he called it an African holiday because he was concerned that if he didn't call it an African holiday, that black Americans would not participate in it.

Tucker Carlson

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

Tupac Shakur

You gotta find a way to survive cause they win when your soul dies.

Tupac Shakur

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

Tracy Chevalier

The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.

Vera Wang

The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.

Venus Williams

Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.

Van Wyck Brooks

How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world about them. People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. But magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And what is more, they find it everywhere.

Valentino Garavani

I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.

Valentino Garavani

The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.

Valentino Rossi

Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.

Valentino Rossi

I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.

Ulysses S. Grant

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Richard Dawkins

The fear of Hell is a very powerful motivation.

Richard Dawkins

My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal label, and the most dangerous one, by which a "they" as opposed to a "we" can be identified at all.

Robyn Davidson

The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Robin Williams

Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'

Torii Hunter

Kirby played every day. You feed off of that. When you think of Kirby, you think of motivation. Im definitely going to dedicate this year to him.

Steve Young

The principle is competing against yourself.

Veronica Roth

Take away someone’s fear, or low intelligence, or dishonesty . . . and you take away their compassion. Take away someone’s aggression and you take away their motivation, or their ability to assert themselves. Take away their selfishness and you take away their sense of self-preservation.

Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do.

Vince Lombardi

Leadership rests not only on outstanding ability. It also rests on commitment, loyalty and pride. It rests on followers who are ready to accept guidance. Leadership is the ability to direct people and - more important - to have those people accept that direction.

Vince Lombardi

If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?