Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Scheuer

And when you say the policies are what caused this war - American policies - that's not to say that they're wrong. It's not to say that the policies were made by madmen or evil people. It's simply to say that you better understand the motivation of your enemy if you're going to defeat him. And the man who is motivated by a belief that his religion is being attacked by a superpower is much more dangerous than a man who's mad at you because you have women in the workplace.

Michael Schumacher

I retired simply because I didn't have the passion and motivation anymore; I was tired. At the time I thought, 'Well, I had a great time, there is the end.' At some moment, there is the right time to call it an end.

Michael Sandel

There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement, and for that matter, a recipe for intolerance and coercion.

Michael Sandel

A better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to require that people leave their deepest moral convictions outside politics before they enter.

Michael Reagan

If you believe, so will they.

Michael Korda

To succeed, we must first believe that we can.

Markus Zusak

Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.

Marianne Williamson

A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

Martin Jacques

The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family ... but as the head of the family.

Martin Jacques

For 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other civilizations. Because, at the end of the day, it could, if necessary by force, get its own way.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I'm concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice; I'm concerned about brotherhood; I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about that, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate through violence. Darkness cannot put out darkness; only light can do that.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, 'Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there "is" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action.

Mark Victor Hansen

Don't think it, ink it.

Mark Victor Hansen

Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some.

Mark Victor Hansen

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Mark Victor Hansen

I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference

Mark Victor Hansen

Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.

Mark Victor Hansen

Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.

Mark Victor Hansen

True or true? Yes or yes?

Mark Victor Hansen

Big goals get big results. No goals gets no results or somebody else's results.

Mark Victor Hansen

Imitate until you emulate; match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.

Mark Victor Hansen

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Mark Knopfler

Sometimes you gotta be an s.o.b., you wanna make a dream reality

Mark Bittman

1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight.

Mikhail Gorbachev

The social model of the Bolsheviks failed, as will any model that denies individual rights, intellectual freedom, and freedom of competing political parties. Without these freedoms and rights, there is no motivation for people to work. Such a system cannot be sustained, especially in light of the technological revolution of the information era.

Nicholas A. Christakis

If your friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 45 percent higher. ... If your friend's friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 25 percent higher. ... If your friend's friend's friend, someone you probably don't even know, is obese, your risk of obesity is 10 percent higher. It's only when you get to your friend's friend's friend's friends that there's no longer a relationship between that person's body size and your own body size.