Quality is pride of workmanship.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
William James
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis
Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.
Corazon Aquino
I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.
Jewel
Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.
If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.
Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this.
Shania Twain
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.
Rachel McAdams
Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing.
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
Man lives for science as well as bread.
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
Eric Hoffer
There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Will Rogers
Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects in the phenomenal world.
I have a little kitchen office at home, where I do all my kids' stuff.
Katey Sagal
If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Orison Swett Marden
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers!
Warwick Davis
Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America, re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil.
Tom Vilsack
As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.
Hugh Jackman
Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains.
Tia Carrere
I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.
Andrew Cuomo
Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.
Josh McDowell
You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.
Dave Van Ronk
I don't believe in fad diets.
Jenny Craig
Spare no expense to save money on this one.
Samuel Goldwyn
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
Lucretius
Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business.
Franklin P. Jones
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