Famous Quotes & Sayings

William James

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

Sara Blakely

Having a mental snapshot of where you are, where you are going, and what you are moving toward is incredibly powerful.

Sara Blakely

Embrace what you don`t know

William Feather

The way to get ahead is to start now.

William Feather

The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.

William Ellery Channing

In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail.

Whoopi Goldberg

We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.

Ronald Reagan

Double - no, triple - our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth.

Ronald Reagan

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

Ronald Reagan

Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way

Ronald Reagan

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

Ronald Reagan

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Saint Augustine

It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation. He does not want to be holy; he only wants to seem to be holy. He is more concerned with his reputation for righteousness than about actually becoming righteous. The approbation of men matters more to him than the approval of God.

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.

Robin Williams

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

Robert Ringer

What unleashes action is an individual's willingness to make mistakes - even to look foolish or stupid.

Robert Rodriguez

Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way.

Robert Nozick

Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I have held, a nice way to behave towards someone; also it does not fit the original motivation for studying or entering philosophy. That motivation is puzzlement, curiousity, a desire to understand, not a desire to produce uniformity of belief. Most people do not want to become thought-police. The philosophical goal of explanation rather than proof not only is morally better, it is more in accord with one's philosophical motivation.

Robert E. Lee

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

Robert Collier

Mind is all that counts.

Robert Collier

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Robert Collier

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

Richard P. Feynman

I learned a lot of different things from different schools. MIT is a very good place…. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks that it’s the most wonderful place in the world—it’s the center, somehow, of scientific and technological development in the United States, if not the world … and while you don’t get a good sense of proportion there, you do get an excellent sense of being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on

Richard Baxter

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.