Famous Quotes & Sayings

Other than the motivational stuff, at this point, there's not much we can do.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

If we are going to do anything significant with life, we sometimes have to move away from it- beyond the usual measurements. We must occasionally follow visions and dreams.

B. R. Ambedkar

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Bill Shoemaker

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

Bill Cosby

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

C. S. Lewis

You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while you are making them you cannot see them. Good people know about both bad and evil; bad people do not know about either.

C. S. Lewis

Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you - the part that chooses - into something a little different than what it was before. Taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature.

C. S. Lewis

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Arsene Wenger

To achieve great things you have first to believe it.

Anthony Storr

Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed.

Bill Bowerman

If you have a body, you are an athlete!

Bill Bowerman

There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

Bill Bradley

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

Carl Jung

Where there is life, there is hope.

Carl Jung

The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.

Charles R. Swindoll

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

Charles Kettering

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Charles Kettering

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

Charles Kingsley

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

Charles Darwin

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

Charles Darwin

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Charles Barkley

I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.

Blake Mycoskie

Setbacks and fear are inevitable. The thing that distinguishes the ultimate successes from the ultimate failures is this: What do you do with them?

Blake Mycoskie

I surround myself with inspirational quotations. This easy-to-follow piece of advice has played a huge role in my being able to get past my own fears and insecurities throughout my entrepreneurial career.

Blake Mycoskie

I am a big believer in the value of traveling while you are young. The experiences you have in other countries can inspire greatness.

Blake Mycoskie

What got us to where we are today is not going to get us to where we need to go tomorrow.

Blake Mycoskie

The most important step of all is the first step. Start something! What if that idea you have in the back of your head is a really good one, one that might end up helping tens of thousands of people? You owe it to the world ot act. Or maybe it will help only a few people: The same advice applies. If you don't do it, you are missing out on something big, and so are the people who could have been helped.

Billie Holiday

The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.

Billie Jean King

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

Charles R. Swindoll

Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.

Arthur Ashe

I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we're never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?