Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Rohn

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Jim Rohn

It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances.

Jim Rohn

If you want to amend your errors, you must begin by amending your philosophy.

Jim Rohn

Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more.

Jim Rohn

Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy.

Jim Rohn

Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out.

Jim Rohn

Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone's personal philosophy.

Jim Rohn

The key factor that will determine your financial future is not the economy; the key factor is your philosophy.

Jim Rohn

Philosophy is the sum total of all that you know and what you decide is valuable.

Jim Rohn

Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.

George MacDonald

Philosophy is really homesickness.

George Jones

Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it's not the right way but wrong's what I do best.

Emanuel Celler

Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

Emanuel Swedenborg

The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.

Elvis Presley

My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something.

Elvis Presley

Never wait for tomorrow, what if tomorrow never comes?

Elvis Presley

What's the good of reaching 90, if you waste 89?

Elizabeth Gilbert

Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery by looking miserable yourself. That's my philosophy. This is why I always wore makeup and jewelry into the jungle-nothing too extravagant, but maybe just a nice gold bracelet and some earrings, a little lipstick, good perfume. Just enough to show that I still had my self-respect.

Katherine Anne Porter

I have no patience with this dreadful idea that whatever you have in you has to come out, that you can't suppress true talent. People can be destroyed; they can be bent, distorted, and completely crippled . . . In spite of all the poetry, all the philosophy to the contrary, we are not really masters of our fate.

Joseph Conrad

Analytical philosophy was very interesting. It always struck me as being very interesting and full of tremendous intellectual curiosities. It is wonderful to see the mind at work in such an intense manner, but, for me, it was still too far removed from my own issues.

Joseph Butler

People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by use they become satisfied merely with seeing what is said, without going any further. Review and attention, and even forming a judgment, becomes fatigue; and to lay anything before them that requires it, is putting them quite out of their way.

Kate Mulgrew

Abortion does not compute with my philosophy

Leonard Cohen

Like any joker, he was watching For the card that is so high and wild He'll never need to deal another He was just some Joseph looking for a manger

Leonard Cohen

Don't dwell on what has passed away or what is yet to be.

Leigh Steinberg

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.

Laura Ziskin

Movies are arguably the most influential, important medium in the world. They have a tremendous cultural impact. Because women are now making movies, then women's ideas, philosophy, point of view will seep into that culture. And that's never happened in history. Ever, ever, ever. We can't even see the impact of that yet.

Kwame Nkrumah

Of all literature I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey.

John Kasich

Everybody should have a chance to rise. That's our philosophy in Ohio and that's my philosophy for America.

John Keats

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

John Keats

For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.

John Keats

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine - Unweave a rainbow.

John Cusack

I don't walk around talking about my life and spouting my philosophy to people I don't know. I mean, if I get to know them, I'll talk for hours. I guess I like a lower-key scene.

Lord Acton

The epoch of doubt and transition during which the Greeks passed from the dim fancies of mythology to the fierce light of science was the age of Pericles, and the endeavour to substitute certain truth for the prescriptions of impaired authorities, which was then beginning to absorb the energies of the Greek intellect, is the grandest movement in the profane annals of mankind, for to it we owe, even after the immeasurable progress accomplished by Christianity, much of our philosophy and far the better part of the political knowledge we possess.