Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Kay Ash

The greatest pollution problem we face today is negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and believe you can do anything. Replace 'if I can, I hope, maybe' with 'I can, I will, I must.

Martin Yan

I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.

Michael Andretti

When you're in the back of the pack, you can gamble a little bit more.

Michael Johnson

They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down.

Michael Johnson

The only one who can beat me is me.

Michael Johnson

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

Michael Josephson

Take pride in how far you've come. Have faith in how far you can go. But don't forget to enjoy the journey.

Michael Josephson

People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world.

Michael Josephson

Don't let others define you. Don't let the past confine you. Take charge of your life with confidence and determination and there are no limits on what you can do or be.

Michael J. Fox

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

Michael Jordan

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.

Michael Jordan

Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.

Martha Washington

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

Mark Zuckerberg

If you don't risk anything you risk everything

Teri Garr

I have worked enough and I am happy to be touring the country speaking about living with MS to give people inspiration and motivation to help themselves.

Ted Turner

All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

Ted Turner

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

Theodore Roosevelt

We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

Theodore Roosevelt

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

Terry Pratchett

The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Margaret Mead

If they learn easily, they are penalized for being bored when they have nothing to do; if they excel in some outstanding way, they are penalized as being conspicuously better than the peer group. The culture tries to make the child with a gift into a one-sided person, to penalize him at every turn, to cause him trouble in making friends and to create conditions conducive to the development of a neurosis. Neither teachers, the parents of other children, nor the child peers will tolerate a Wunderkind.

Margaret Mead

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

Marcus Buckingham

Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.

Michael Strahan

At the same time, it makes me feel like I have to prove myself to the new guys coming in as well as prove myself to the coaching staff, which is a good bit of motivation for me.

Neale Donald Walsch

Whatever it is that you wish to experience more of in your life, be the source of it in the life of another.

Nancy Werlin

Nothing that had happened in the past could be taken away. This was an amazing gift. The past was done and over and settled; you couldn't get it back, but still, whatever good you had gotten from it, spiritually, emotionally, would be yours for your lifetime.

Morrie Schwartz

The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

Marcel Proust

A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

Marcel Proust

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

Lance Armstrong

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

Lisa See

In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.

Johnny Depp

They stick you with those names, those labels -- ‘rebel’ or whatever; whatever they like to use. Because they need a label; they need a name. They need something to put the price tag on the back of.