Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.
Joel OsteenA life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Jackie RobinsonI had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.
Karl LagerfeldWhat good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.
Bob DylanThe last thing you want is to not be recognized for all of the hard work you put in.
The WeekndAll I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.
Kevin HartIf it’s all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it’s all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that’s it. You’re not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You’re not going to read that book again.
Margaret AtwoodWhatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
BuddhaI always wanted to be a Vine star. I wasn’t, thank God.
Billie EilishTeaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamBeethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
Ludwig van BeethovenOur love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.
Michelle ObamaFor every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Jim RohnIt is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore RooseveltI never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
Erma BombeckYou have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
Karl LagerfeldThe talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.
Woody AllenIn my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.
Wayne DyerI probably work harder, putting in a lot of time and effort, than a lot of drivers because all I think about, and all I do, is to do with racing, trying to make myself a better driver.
Lando NorrisWhen we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.
Brene BrownWe cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
Niccolo MachiavelliWe don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
Golda MeirThe fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Francis BaconThe Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.
Bill GatesEvery day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!
Joyce MeyerI was a chemistry major, but I’m always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this.
Kurt VonnegutIf you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.
Thich Nhat HanhWords can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.
Jane GoodallI would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerI can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
Helen KellerIf you really love films, and you really want to get the full impact, there’s a huge difference between watching something on a small screen with a mediocre sound system and watching it on a giant screen in a giant theater with a huge beautiful sound system. I mean, the difference is electric.
George LucasMost of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.
Jackie ChanOnce you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.
Maya AngelouOh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!
Charles SpurgeonIt’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There’s no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.
Barack ObamaYou pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Khalil GibranI do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs – that’s where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that’s very cool.
David BowieIt is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Theodore RooseveltIf I’m a star, then the people made me a star.
Marilyn MonroeLet not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
Marcus AureliusI want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.
George W. BushA man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?
Christopher HitchensGlory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.
Kevin GatesI saw 14 games in two and a half months at Churchill. It was what I really signed for. They were eyeing the championship and also playing the AFC Cup. So I am very thankful for Churchill, the coaching staff and the players.
Sunil ChhetriThere are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel JohnsonWhen you write a song like ‚Forrest Gump,‘ the subject can’t be androgynous. It requires an unnecessary amount of effort.
Frank OceanI’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.
Tom BradyThe first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.
Charles SpurgeonWhen Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.
Bill GatesA man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
Henry David ThoreauI want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.
Nipsey HussleIf my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
Audrey HepburnBeauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheYou do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz KafkaSuccess is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale CarnegieEvery man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.
Henry AdamsThe happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
Samuel JohnsonWhat, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
Mark Twain