Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You must see it. You must believe it. And then you must never stop working to make it happen.

Bear Grylls

What I've learned over the years is that the path less traveled always makes for a more interesting journey. If you simply do what everyone else is doing, how can you ever expect to excel and create something wonderful and unique in your life?

Bear Grylls

My best life lessons and education didn't come from a classroom - they've come from the wild. How you act in the big moments, the ones that challenge you, scare you, tempt you, and force you to make the right decisions, is what defines you.

Audrey Hepburn

I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

Audre Lorde

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Did Indira Gandhi ask for somebody's permission to carry out the test in 1974?

Arnold Bennett

The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

Arnold Palmer

The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

Frederic Bastiat

Repetition may not entertain, but it teaches.

Derek Jeter

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.

Derek Jeter

If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits. That's the bottom line.

Denzel Washington

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.

Denis Waitley

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Denis Waitley

Great individuals make great successes out of failure.

Denis Waitley

There never was a winner that didn't expect to win in advance.

Denis Waitley

Expect to succeed even before you start. All winners, no matter what their game, start with the expectations that they are going to succeed. Winners say, "I want to do this and I CAN do this", not "I would like to do this, but I don't think I can."

Denis Waitley

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

Denis Waitley

Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

Denis Waitley

Winning is coming in fourth, exhausted but excited, because you came in fifth last time.

Dennis Brown

But now I'm getting that spiritual motivation to visit Africa.

Denise Morrison

Don't just let your career happen to you. You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you.

Deepak Chopra

When the human organism is discharging its negative experience efficiently, the mind is empty of past or future concerns; there is no worry, anticipation, or regret. This means that the mind is left open to Being, the simplest state of awareness.

Deepak Chopra

Pay attention to that unchanging part of yourself. It is perfect. At the source of life, and only there, one finds peace, harmony, and the undisturbed contentment of bliss.

Deepak Chopra

This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

Deepak Chopra

Tune into the presence of miracles, and in an instant, life can be transformed into a dazzling experience, more wondrous and exciting than we could even imagine.

Deepak Chopra

We forget sometimes that there are saints living among us. When we meet them, we are reminded, not just of the presence of pure divinity right here on earth, but also of our own potential, and of the responsibility we have to try to live up to it, for our own sakes and for the very future of this planet.

Deepak Chopra

Ecstasy carries you completely outside your ego boundaries. In ecstasy you know yourself as cosmic ego, unbounded in time and space.

Edward Everett Hale

To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.

Ed Koch

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Edwin Powell Hubble

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.