Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Matthews

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.

Dalai Lama

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Dolly Parton

I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

Dick Fosbury

I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an Olympic athlete. It always seemed to evolve.

Desmond Tutu

We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.

Deepak Chopra

Accept what comes to you totally & completely so that you can appreciate it, learn from it & then let it go.

Debbie Meyer

Believe in yourself, not only in swimming, but in life itself. You always have to have fun. You have to have an open mind. If you're not enjoying it, don't do it. Life's too short.

Debi Thomas

What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life.

Debi Thomas

I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.

Andre Agassi

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.

Andre Agassi

Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.

Andre Agassi

If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.

Anna Sewell

Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? -- and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, `Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right.

Chuck Noll

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Chuck Norris

I've been very fortunate to be able to use my series as a platform to show a good message for the kids.

Chuck Norris

I think setting a goal, getting a visual image of what it is you want. You've got to see what it is you want to achieve before you can pursue it.

Chuck Norris

People whine, 'I haven't succeeded because I haven't had the breaks.' You create your own breaks.

Alfred Hitchcock

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

Andre Gide

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

Ann Richards

The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.

Anatole France

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

Anatole France

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anne Frank

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Andrew Zuckerman

You can't get to wonderful without passing through alright.

Andrei Tarkovsky

Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.

Chuck Palahniuk

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

Chuck Knox

If you could have won, you should have.

Christopher Nolan

Films are subjective - what you like, what you don't like. But the thing for me that is absolutely unifying is the idea that every time I go to the cinema and pay my money and sit down and watch a film go up on-screen, I want to feel that the people who made that film think it's the best movie in the world, that they poured everything into it and they really love it. Whether or not I agree with what they've done, I want that effort there - I want that sincerity. And when you don't feel it, that's the only time I feel like I'm wasting my time at the movies.

Anson Dorrance

You can never be fit enough for this game.

Andrew Carnegie

TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.

Andrew Carnegie

Any idea that is held in the mind that is either feared or revered will, begin at once to clothe itself in the most convenient and appropriate physical forms available.

Andrew Carnegie

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Andrew Carnegie

There is little success where there is little laughter.