Famous Sayings

Don't think you can't; show you can

If you think you really can, then why not show it? The rest is with God!!!!

" If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team."

" A minute's success pays the failure of years."

Every passion has its destiny

I will prepare and some day my chance will come

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind

Heart in champions has to do with the depth of your motivation and how well your mind and body react to pressure

Better take pains; believe me it's worth it

Knowledge is potential; action is power

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land,
when they can see nothing but sea

Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must
first be overcome.

Every heart that has beat strongly
and cheerfully has left a hopeful
impulse behind it in the world,
and bettered the tradition of mankind.

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws,
to be led by permanent ideals -
that is what keeps a man patient
when the world ignores him,
and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation.
Wholeheartedness is contagious.
Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

What a piece of work is man!
How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty!
In form, in moving, how express and admirable!
In action how like an angel!
In apprehension how like a God!

To be what we are, and to become what
we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great
will-power.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us,
something that was before the elements,
and owes no homage to the sun.

That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence
inside you that makes you want to believe that there still
exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end.

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two
greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength
of mind.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory
of the tale of Orpheus; it moves stones and charms brutes. It
is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories
without it.


Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow,
we cannot afford to build on shifting sands.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing
strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should
reply: To the superiority of their women.

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility.
An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

We cannot be happy
if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity,
but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the
foundation of courage and true progress.

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time

Through Reverence for Life
I raise my existence to its highest value
and offer it to the world

The irony of desire is
that when you receive the object of desire,
it creates that state of mind we call satisfaction
for only a moment

Easier said than done this

All paths lead to the same goal,
to convey to others what we are

We come into this world alone,
and alone we leave it.
And between the entrance and the exit,
we spend our time looking for companionship

If we don't know where we are,
we don't know who we are

God provides the wind,
but man must raise the sails

I imagine, therefore i belong and am free

True ambition is not what we are thought it was.
True ambition and walk humbly under the grace of God

Boredom is simply a lack of attention

The man who never alters his opinions
is like standing water,
and breeds reptiles of the mind.

It is by dying that one awakens to eternal life

If i am not for myself, who is for me?
And if i am only for myself, what am i?
And if not now, when?

In the beginners' mind there are many possibilities;
In the experts' mind there are few.

Without heroes, we are all plain people
and don't know how far we can go

Man cannot live by bread alone. He must have peanut butter

A hero is a man who does what he can

Inside each of us is a baby we have to protect.
This baby is all future generations...

There is more to life than increasing its speed

Why should we consider prayer an embarrassing exception to the rule that imagination, fantasy, personification, analogy and dramatization are invaluable techniques for positioning ourselves creatively in the world ?

The little things? The little moments? They aren't little

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life

Not i - not anyone else can travel that road for you,
You must travel it for yourself

Better than a thousand useless words is one single word that gives peace

He who would learn to fly one day
must first learn to stand and
walk and run and climb and dance;
One cannot fly into flying

Listen, or your tongues will keep you deaf

He who has to walk with fools has a long journey of sorrow...
but the joy of being with the wise is like the joy
of meeting a beloved kinsman

We are monumentally distracted by a
pervasive technological culture that appears
to have a life of its own,
one that insists on our full attention, continually
seducing us and pulling us away from
the opportunity to experience directly
the true meaning of our own lives

Life without a friend;
death without a witness

Happiness and beauty are by-products

All miseries derive from not being able to sit quitely
in a room alone

Happiness is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness

The fundamental defect of fathers is
that they want their children to be a credit to them

Life always gets harder toward the summit-
the cold increases-
responsibility increases

Nobody today is normal,
everybody is a little bit crazy or unbalanced,
people's mind are running all the time...
They are eaten alive by their egos

Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul
even to your smallest acts.
This is the secret of success

Imagination is more important than knowledge

..if we do not change our daily lives,
we cannot change the world

We are a divided species-
head running ahead of heart.
It is no surprise that coronary thrombosis
is the characteristic death of our time.
The heart literally chokes up on
the impossibility of keeping up

Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the
elimination of nonessentials

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old;
seek what they sought

Pain is inevitable.
Suffering is optional

Cause Change & Lead
Accept Change & Survive
Resist Change & Die

Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, you can achieve.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistance.
Talent will not;
Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
Genius will not;
Unrewarded genius is almost legendary;
Education will not;
The world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and Determination alone are omnipotent.

Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength, but through persistence.

But sooner or later the person who wins
Is the person that THINKS they can.

Imagination rules the world

The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority.

An obstacle is often a stepping stone

There is nothing so wasteful as doing with great efficiency that which doesn't have to be done at all.

Life is "trying things to see if they work"

Four things that never come back: the spent arrow; the spoken word; the lost opportunity and email sent.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

We're never gonna survive unless we go a little crazy.

We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then todays successes will be few.

Rather the pain of discipline, than the pain of regret

Things do not change; we change

Invest Your Time Before You Invest Your Money

Don't focus on how to spend less money,
Focus on how to make more money.

I will live through the next 12 hours and try not to tackle all of life's problems at once.
I will improve my mind, I will learn something that requires effort and concentration.
I will look my best, speak in a well modulated voice, be sincere and considerate.
I will not find fault with a friend, relative or colleague.
I will not try to change or improve anyone but myself.
I will have a programme. I might not follow it exactly, but i will have it.
I will save myself from two enemies: hurry and indecision.
I will do two things i don't want to do, just for the exercise.
I will believe in myself.
I will give my best to the world and feel confident

Life isn't a dress rehearsal

Life is a challenge - meet it.
Life is a gift - accept it.
Life is an adventure - dare it.
Life is a sorrow - overcome it.
Life is a tragedy - face it.
Life is a duty - perform it.
Life is a game - play it.
Life is a mystery - unfold it
Life is a song - sing it.
Life is an opportunity - take it.
Life is a journey - complete it.
Life is a promise - fulfill it.
Life is a beauty - praise it.
Life is a struggle - fight it.
Life is a goal - achieve it.
Life is a puzzle - solve it.
Life is a love - love it.

Take Time

Take Time to Think,
It is the source of power.

Take time to Play,
It is the source of perpetual youth.

Take time to Read,
It is the foundation of wisdom.

Take time to Love and to Be Loved,
It is a gift.

Take time to Be Friendly,
It is the road to happiness.

Take time to Laugh,
It is the music of the soul.

Take time to Give,
It is too short a day to be selfish.

Take time to Work,
It is the price of success.

Take time to Do Charity,
It is the key to heaven.

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.



A Smile

There's something you may give,
To a friend and a stranger too;

It seems that when you give it,
It's given back to you.

This gift is worh a million,
But doesn't cost a cent;

It's lasting in effect,
But doesn't take much time,

This simple little gesture
Can make the day worthwhile;

It's just as good as sunshine;
It's just a friendly smile.


I expect to pass through this world but once.

Therefore any good that i can do or any kindness that i can show to any fellow creature,
Let me do it now,
For i shall not pass this way again.

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Don't be so humble - you are not that great

If a man does his best, what else is there?

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends

Do, or do not. There is no 'try'.

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense

A programmer is a device for turning coffee into codes

Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe

If you are going through hell, keep going

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with computers.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact

Black holes are where God divided by zero

I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours

Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence

God, please save me from your followers!

The secret of a long and happy life is to Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names

Everything has been figured out, except how to live

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning

I am not young enough to know everything

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other fool die for his

There is no sincerer love than the love of food

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung

No Sane man will dance

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance

Men have become the tools of their tools

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying

Well done is better than well said

The average person thinks he isn't.

Sometimes it is not enough to our best; we must do what is required

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing

If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them

"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies."
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.

God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.