Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard G. Scott

Great power can come from memorizing scriptures. To memorize a scripture is to forge a new friendship. It is like discovering a new individual who can help in time of need, give inspiration and comfort, and be a source of motivation for needed change

Susan B. Anthony

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

Brian Cox

[The 1975 Chase Econometrics] showed that for every one dollar spent on Apollo, 14 came back into the U.S. economy.

Brandi Chastain

And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you.

Branch Rickey

Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.

Bobby Unser

If a person has enough desire, he will acquire the talent, he will build his skills.

Bobby Unser

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

Bobby Knight

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

Bob Costas

I can't do anything about how people who are all but completely unaware of my actual motivations and my actual thought process and my actual worldview, how they characterize me. There's not much I can do about it, except never say another word other than 'there's a ground ball to shortstop.' And I don't think that's going to happen.

Bob Dylan

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.

Billy Corgan

Every year that goes by, I lose that much more motivation to play rock.

Bonnie Bassler

[Bacteria] have an incredibly complicated chemical lexicon that ... allows bacteria to be multicellular. In the spirit of TED they're doing things together because it makes a difference.

Bonnie Bassler

You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.

Bonnie Blair

Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.

Brigham Young

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

Brigham Young

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Brendon Urie

Heartbreak is the best motivation.

Brendon Burchard

Choosing our own aims and seeking to bring them to fruition creates a sense of vitality and motivation in life. The only things that derail our efforts are fear and oppression.

Brendon Burchard

People say, "I wish I had more motivation today, because then I would try something." But our thinking is backward. The way our brain works is that dopamine - the so-called feel-good chemical - is released the second we actually do something. So the motivation doesn't come before, it comes after.

Brendon Burchard

Motivation comes from effort.

Brennan Manning

I you think you've done it, then you're wrong. Because you're not finished until you have achieved everything that you never thought you could.

When they teach [doctors] how to suture, they also teach them how to stitch their self-worth to being all-powerful.

I became Vulnerability TED, like an action figure - like Ninja Barbie, but I'm Vulnerability TED.

That's what life is about: about daring greatly, about being in the arena.

The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out, it's not merely benign or 'too bad' if we don't use the gifts that we've been given; we pay for it with our emotional and physical well-being. When we don't use our talents to cultivate meaningful work, we struggle. We feel disconnected and weighted down by feelings of emptiness, frustration, resentment, shame, disappointment, fear, and even grief.

We cannot give our children what we don't have. Where we are on our journey of living and loving with our whole hearts is a much stronger indicator of parenting success than anything we can learn from how-to books.

We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.

Perfectionism is self-destructive simply because there is no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal. Additionally, perfectionism is more about perception - we want to be perceived as perfect. Again, this is unattainable - there is no way to control perception, regardless of how much time and energy we spend trying.

Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.

Laughter, song, and dance create emotional and spiritual connection; they remind us of the one thing that truly matters when we are searching for comfort, celebration, inspiration, or healing: We are not alone.

Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives.