Nido Qubein Quotes

When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.

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• There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • You
  • Person
  • Then

• Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Effort
  • Goal
  • Achieve

• Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Me
  • Wonder
  • Matter

• Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Person
  • Racism
  • Lead

• Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Person
  • Point
  • Lie

• Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Long
  • Goal
  • President

• I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Kind
  • Person
  • Grudges

• My own personal goal is I just hope to still write songs and kind of let that sustain me as a job. If I could never have a 9-to-5 job, and making a living doing this, it'd just be incredible.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Job
  • Hope
  • Goal

• He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Painting
  • Matter
  • Pleasure

• My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • She
  • Mother
  • Person

• The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Love
  • Giving
  • Person

• Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.

  

  Gail Collins
  • High
  • Never
  • Wall

• Well, first of all, I'm an incredibly gullible person - I'm so bad that when I said that to someone, my friend said, 'You know, 'gullible' isn't even in the dictionary.' And I said, 'Really?' As I was saying 'Really?' I will acknowledge that I then realized what was happening, but that's how bad I am.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Bad
  • Person
  • Gullible

• It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.

  

  Gary Numan
  • You
  • Always
  • Matter

• I am just a quiet reclusive person who has managed to hang around for a while.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Person
  • Reclusive

• The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Matter

• I'm just trying to really take it one day at a time, because for me - and I know this sounds cliche, whatever - I achieved my ultimate goal, and nothing can really top that, you know?

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Day

• I love Memphis, I guess you could say, in the way that you love a brother even if he does sometimes puzzle and sadden and frustrate you. Say what you want about it, it's an authentic place. I was born and raised in Memphis, and no matter where I go, Memphis belongs to me, and I to it.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Matter
  • Place
  • Born

• I am an honest person, transparent, that look citizens straight in their faces.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Person
  • Honest
  • Straight

• When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Movie
  • Goal
  • Acting

• I have always been a reserved and conservative person.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Always
  • Person
  • Conservative

• Every time we focus on someone else's darkness, we are blocking our own view of the light. We think the person we are involved with has attacked us or has withheld love from us, when they really haven't. We focus on their guilt instead of their innocence. Frequently people are just being themselves and we start projecting our own childhood dramas onto them, pushing away the very love we want so much.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Time
  • Light

• I've never felt the breath of God – you can take that statement literally or metaphorically – more than when I was yearning for a personal, intimate connection to something bigger than me.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Connection
  • Intimate

• When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.

  

  Nido Qubein
  • Person
  • Goal
  • Matter