When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel JohnsonWithout discipline, there’s no life at all.
Katharine HepburnIt was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘
Angelina JolieThe great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Francis BaconThe beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
George EliotAn artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
Friedrich NietzscheHair is about when you’re younger. I am my hair.
Lady GagaI think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.
Madeleine AlbrightImagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
EpictetusI disagree with everything I used to say.
Vivienne WestwoodI’m not a natural joiner.
J. K. RowlingI am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.
Keanu ReevesIf a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.
Robert GreeneLoving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
Maya AngelouNothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.
EminemSuccess is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.
John C. MaxwellThe bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamHe who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
Lao TzuThe truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.
Joyce MeyerThe important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.
Kobe BryantIn our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.
Carl SaganI didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.
Vivienne WestwoodMy message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.
Greta ThunbergYour ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
Napoleon HillPassions are the gales of life.
Alexander PopeIf you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.
Jim RohnAnd when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.
Muhammad AliI’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.
Steve JobsThose who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamIf you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.
Thich Nhat HanhWhat’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.
Bill GatesI don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.
David BowieAdversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Samuel JohnsonI don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.
Joyce MeyerAlmost everything that is great has been done by youth.
Benjamin DisraeliIt’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.
Ray BradburyA teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry AdamsHe that can have patience can have what he will.
Benjamin FranklinWhen nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
James BaldwinPeople need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Emily DickinsonWishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
AristotleWhoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich NietzscheWe should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
Benjamin DisraeliWrite it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo EmersonYou have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘
Maya AngelouI have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘
Joe BidenI have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.
Harper LeeThis is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
Winston ChurchillMost people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.
William JamesI’m not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody’s throat: ‚You’re going to do it my way.‘ I’d rather show by example and live my life and have people say, ‚You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He’s got peace and joy, and he seems content.‘
Joel OsteenI believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.
Conor McGregorI like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.
Taylor SwiftI think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.
Denzel WashingtonNever give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry FordI’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.
Kanye WestMost of my songs have names of people I’ve met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
Taylor Swift