Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Erskine

You hear the same thing every year but that is because it is true. In a short series, pitching is very dominant.

Alan Russell

The richer we are, the longer we live. And the longer we live, the more expensive it is to take care of our diseases as we get older.

Charles W. Chesnutt

Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.

Charles Dickens

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Cheryl Strayed

I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English degree and/or creative writing degree you'll say: Continue my bookish examination of the contradictions and complexities of human motivation and desire; or maybe just: Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters. And then smile very serenely until they say, Oh.

Cher

If you're waiting for someone to believe in you, you'll be waiting forever. You must believe in yourself.

Cher

Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.

Cher

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

Charlotte Lennox

The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.

What if compassion is also profitable? What if compassion is also good for business?

Charlie Munger

In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time - none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads - at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.

Charles M. Schwab

The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. The fellow who sits still and does just what he is told will never be told to do big things.

Charles Hazlewood

[As a conductor] there has to be, between me and the orchestra, an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect, through which we can spin a musical narrative that we all believe in.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Human success is a quotation from overhead.

Charles J. Givens

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

Bob Richards

You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do! You are what you think you are.

Bob Richards

One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.

Bill Maher

If you believe that the world is going to come to an end - and perhaps any day now - does it not drain one's motivation to improve life on earth while we're here?

Beth Moore

A powerful motivation for believing God in our present is intentionally remembering how He's worked in our past.

Beth Moore

Christ honors our submission even when our only motivation is obedience.

Bill Toomey

Olympians are the product of the Movement, and to get them to the stadiums, pools and playing fields, it takes the actions of legions of people who might not be Olympians.

Bill Toomey

The Olympics have been with the world since 776 B.C., and have only been interrupted by war, especially in the modern era.

Bill Veeck

If you can't outsmart people, outwork them.

Bill Walsh

We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.

Bill Walsh

Consistent motivation usually comes from a consuming desire to be able to perform at your best under pressure, namely, the pressure produced by tough competition. If a player needed me to light a fire under him by turning the other team into a demon, he was lacking something I couldn't give him.

Bill Watterson

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled. Sooner or later, we are all asked to compromise ourselves and the things we care about. We define ourselves by our actions. With each decision, we tell ourselves and the world who we are. Think about what you want out of this life, and recognize that there are many kinds of success.

Bill Watterson

We're not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand ourselves. Our idea of relaxing is all too often to plop down in front of the television set and let its pandering idiocy liquefy our brains. Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

Bill Watterson

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

Bill Watterson

At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.

Bill Vaughan

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

William James

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

We're going to have to go back and watch the film, ... and use it as motivation for (this) week.

Edgar Guest

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.