Cecelia Ahern Quotes

Why do we stop believing in ourselves? Why do we let facts and figures and anything but dreams rule our lives?

Cecelia Ahern

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• When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Trying
  • Find
  • Gold

• Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Flying
  • Calm
  • Rattle

• The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Party

• I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Money
  • Know
  • Myself

• The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

  

  Katharine Anthony
  • Truth
  • History
  • Satisfaction

• Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Never
  • Air
  • Before

• There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.

  

  Vince Carter
  • Bad
  • Team
  • Hurt

• How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Men
  • Man
  • Victory

• Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • World
  • Rise
  • Mental Illness

• If you pay your credit card off every month, get a rewards card. One that gives you airline miles or that will give you 1 percent cash back at least on every purchase.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Credit
  • Month
  • Credit Card

• I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • High
  • Myself
  • Crazy

• You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Love Is

• My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Relationship
  • Body
  • Boss

• I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Happy
  • Poetry

• My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a vision, a dream, an ambition to make the world somewhat less chaotic.

  

  Irving Stone
  • World
  • Dream
  • Vision

• We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of an indie.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Black
  • Kind
  • Million

• My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Family
  • Strong
  • Faith

• My mom means the world to me. She's always been the one to get me up early for work, help me with my make up and hair, and just be there to support me in whatever I do. She always makes sure that no matter what, I'm happy in what I'm doing.

  

  Raini Rodriguez
  • World
  • Work
  • Happy

• When most people in the West think about Africa, is their first thought about the game reserves and who's chasing gazelles, or are they looking at Africans as people who are equally equipped to do great things, as in the West?

  

  Djimon Hounsou
  • People
  • Great
  • Game

• I went to theatre school for four years and just wanted to do theatre. I had no ambition to be on TV or to be on camera. I just wanted to go to New York or London and be on stage... I did a lot of theatre in Montreal, got involved in TV in Toronto and then moved to L.A. I hope that film and TV will take me back to theatre.

  

  Sasha Roiz
  • Film
  • Theatre
  • Ambition

• At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Red
  • Loving
  • Wings

• I play for the America that embraces refugees from war-torn nations, for the America that welcomes all people who want the chance to experience the American Dream, for the America that appreciates the contributions from all the people it shelters.

  

  Becky Sauerbrunn
  • People
  • Experience
  • American

• You thank God [for your salvation] because "you do not attribute your repenting and believing to your own wisdom, or prudence, or sound judgment, or good sense.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Good
  • God
  • Believe

• Why do we stop believing in ourselves? Why do we let facts and figures and anything but dreams rule our lives?

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Believe
  • Dream
  • Inspiration