Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erich Fromm

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

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.

George Eliot

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

George Eliot

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Geoffrey Rush

When people come and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.

Frank Jackson

Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Frank Capra

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

Christopher Columbus

Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of the others.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

Chris Powell

Lost motivation means that you broke promises to yourself and haven't corrected them yet. You need to believe in yourself again. This can only happen when you start fulfilling the small promises you make to yourself.

Chris Osgood

I used everything as a positive to make me a better person and a better player. I have no regrets. Everytime I had to play a big game, I played a big game. I used some of the skepticism as a positive and motivation.

George Carlin

The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone.

Gene Roddenberry

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

Garth Brooks

I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry.

Gail Sheehy

To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.

Frederick Carl Frieseke

Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?

Frederick Douglass

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

Frank Warren

Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism playing out silently in the lives of people all around us.

Frank Sinatra

To do is to be. -Descartes To be is to do. - Voltaire Do be do be do.

Frank Gehry

For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.

Fernando Flores

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

Ferdinand Foch

School is a building that has four walls-with tomorrow inside. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. There are many ways of going forward, but there is only one way of standing still. A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills. Doing your best is more important than being the best. Giant oak trees started out as little nuts. The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

Federico Fellini

One of the greatest handicaps is to fear a mistake. You have stopped yourself. You have to move freely into the arena, not just to wait for the perfect situation, the perfect moment... If you have to make a mistake, it's better to make a mistake of action than one of inaction. If I had the opportunity again, I would take chances.

Federico Fellini

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

Fat Joe

Boost Mobile RockCorps is providing the chance and motivation to get our youth interested in volunteering. I usually hear about older people volunteering, but this movement is something new that is encouraging the youth to become involved. It's really a chance for them to come together through caring more about their community, which is so important for these kids to learn early on. I think it's crucial to instill a sense of pride in the community and this is a great way for our youth to do that.

Fatima Siad

The Broken Bow group is such a great family and seem like a group of tight-knit people. When I looked for a new label, I wanted to feel I could trust everybody. I wanted motivation to be at an all-time high.

Fanny Brice

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

Farley Mowat

We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.

Eve Ensler

Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.

Eve Ensler

When we give in the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us.