Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brooks Robinson

If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.

Samuel Butler

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Alan Cohen

You are doing better than you think you are.

Walter Elliot

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.

Malala Yousafzai

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

William Shakespeare

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.

Tina Brown

Give Obama a script he has made his own, and he is the motivational speaker to end all speakers. Tony Robbins cloned with Honest Abe.

Robert Kiyosaki

Often, in the real world, it's not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

Robert Kiyosaki

I have found that the more I teach those who want to learn, the more I learn.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Don Rickles

I'm not one of those guys who wants to die on a stage.

Tim Howard

In the end, very little gets in the way of what Manchester United wants to do.

Edie Falco

When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.

Alan Cohen

The best way to get what you want is to realize you already have it.

Alan Cohen

If you want peace, look for it where it is, not in conflict.

Dick Cheney

You cannot be driven by the polls. The polls change all the time; they're easily manipulated by whoever wants to ask those poll questions; they go up; they go down.

John Nersesian

If I want to build wealth to transfer to the next generation, I can let it grow on a tax-free basis.

Claire Danes

Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.

Willard Boyle

We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She spoke to some friends, received some instructions from the provincial school board, and found some interesting books that perhaps I might find useful.

Viswanathan Anand

I was reasonably interested in mathematics in school. Typically what happens is... when you start playing chess, it takes up a lot of your attention. But about 10 years ago, I found that the Internet is very good to start learning about a lot of subjects.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

David Byrne

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

Ben Carson

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

John Daly

The people around me ... were hoping, of course, that the 'something' would be practicing golf. No such luck. What I found was gambling.

Nate Ruess

I think that I always thought that if my uncle was on Broadway, then I must inherently have a good voice. I don't think that for a while I did. Eventually, out of sheer will of never wanting to get a job or go to college, I found my way into doing music full-time.

Carly Fiorina

Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class.

Pat Conroy

Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278 pages that approached perfection. Its tightness of construction and assuredness of style reminded me of 'The Great Gatsby.'