Famous Quotes & Sayings

Avril Lavigne

Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.

Arthur Erickson

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.

Bella Thorne

Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.

bell hooks

feminism is for everybody

Barry Sanders

In all the time that people have known me, has anyone ever heard me talk about the importance of rushing records or finishing with the most touchdowns? So if that's never been important to me, then why would that be a motivation to keep playing?

Baltasar Gracian

Know the great men of your age.

Baltasar Gracian

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Baltasar Gracian

Know or listen to those who know.

Arundhati Roy

The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all on the same side. And we are against them all.

Arundhati Roy

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

Arianna Huffington

Don't wait until you're not afraid of something to do it. Do it despite the fear and you'll start to develop a 'fearlessness muscle'.

Anthony Trollope

Above all else, never think you're not good enough.

Desi Arnaz

A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.

William Shakespeare

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

DJ Quik

The motivation sometimes comes when you least expect it. I try to keep an open mind.

David Agus

In health care today, we spend most of the dollars - in terms of treating disease - in the last two years of a person's life.

Abraham Lincoln

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

Abraham Lincoln

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

Abraham Lincoln

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

Abraham Lincoln

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Abraham Lincoln

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Abraham Lincoln

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Abraham Lincoln

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Abraham Lincoln

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Abraham Lincoln

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Anne Sullivan

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Alexis Arguello

I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.

Alexis Carrel

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Alexis de Tocqueville

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

Alexandre Aja

I follow my instincts and I always think about what movie I would like to see. If I want to see it then I'm guessing that some other people might want to see it as well. I never try to think about what people will love or will like, because when you start to think for other people that's where you lose track of the real motivation.

Alexandre Dumas

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Meryl Streep

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.