Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
Alexander PopeMany people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.
Robert GreeneThe problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.
Adam SandlerFor me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.
Madeleine AlbrightI’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.
Muhammad AliIt’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.
Tom BradyI think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.
Taylor SwiftA wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel JohnsonWherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
Albert SchweitzerWhen I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‚Lives of Girls and Women,‘ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.
Alice MunroAs a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God’s definition of marriage, between a man and a woman.
Billy GrahamI 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 AlbrightI believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.
Joel OsteenWhat we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerI need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I’m really thinking about.
Steven WrightThe first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.
Sunil ChhetriWe will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
Will RogersI am absolutely my own biggest critic.
Lando NorrisI believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
Eleanor RooseveltI put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.
J. ColeFace your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.
Robert KiyosakiThe time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
EpicurusNo one is laughable who laughs at himself.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
John LennonMemories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
Eckhart TolleYeah, I was a delinquent. It was when I was in the ninth grade. I was doing stupid stuff, and the cops came into the class. I was humiliated more than anything.
Dwayne JohnsonIt’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.
Karl LagerfeldI lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.
David GogginsDon’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.
Jordan PetersonPeople should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
Elon MuskIf two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.
Jurgen KloppIt’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.
Colin PowellIt is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Lou HoltzEach player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
VoltaireWhen you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
Muhammad AliIt’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.
Joyce MeyerI don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.
Adam SandlerFor some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn’t have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.
Jim CarreyLife’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.
Anthony HopkinsAs a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.
Robert KiyosakiThe secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
Bertrand RussellI will praise any man that will praise me.
William ShakespeareIf you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.
Thich Nhat HanhIn retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!
David ByrneI look after people.
Amy WinehouseHe who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin FranklinI always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
John D. RockefellerI’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.
Karl LagerfeldWe are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Samuel JohnsonThe community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
William JamesMen feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
Gilbert K. ChestertonOne friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Henry AdamsMillions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.
Marilyn MonroeA great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William JamesAn Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
George Bernard ShawOnce you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.
John F. KennedyDon’t be afraid to see what you see.
Ronald ReaganSometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
Marilyn MonroeI feel like if you’re a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.
Lady GagaThe beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
George Eliot