Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Lou Retton

Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.

Muhammad Ali

When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished.

Muhammad Ali

Maybe I was great in the ring, but outside of boxing, I'm just a brother like other people. I want to live a good life, serve God, help everybody I can. And one more thing. I'm still gonna find out who stole my bike when I was 12 years old in Louisville and I'm gonna whup him. That was a good bike.

Muhammad Ali

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

Oscar Wilde

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

Oscar Wilde

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Mae West

Positive thoughts generate positive feelings and attract positive life experiences. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Lyman Abbott

Patience is passion tamed.

Lucille Ball

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Margaret Smith

There's a light at the end of the tunnel. And it's a train.

Michael Jordan

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.

Michael Jordan

If I thought of the number of people who were watching me as I got ready to shoot, I?d miss it.

Michael Jordan

learning 's a gift, even when "pain" ,s your teacher!

Michael Dolan

Care not what they say about the color of your skin let the brilliant light of your soul blind them.

Michel de Montaigne

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

Marianne Williamson

Miracles are happening all the time, but if your eyes aren't open and your ears aren't open and your mind's not open and your heart's not open - then even though the miracles are there - you're not!

Marianne Williamson

Those among us who have achieved the most have achieved only a fraction of what ALL of us are capable of. You haven't even begun to scratch the surface!

Marian Wright Edelman

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Marian Anderson

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Nadia Comaneci

I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.

Miuccia Prada

The only way to do something in depth is to work hard. The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger.

Mitt Romney

Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.

Princess Diana

I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being queen of this country.

Princess Diana

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Princess Diana

Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come running wherever they are.

Princess Diana

The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.

Princess Diana

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Publilius Syrus

No one knows what it is that he can do until he tries.

Nelson Mandela

No matter what the past has dealt you, don't let it destroy your future.

Nelson Mandela

I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.

Nelson Mandela

I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days.

Oprah Winfrey

Although there may be tragedy in your life, there's always a possibility to triumph. It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.