Quotes are the key to the knowledge and wisdom of many great people. Find your own beacon on the road to success among our collection of inspirational quotes.
Popular quotes of the
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Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.
Socrates -
But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness; and even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections, is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity.
Francis Bacon -
I have never seen Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff, or Reed Hastings complain about being public. Nor have they ever argued that being public prevented them from doing things with a long-term focus.
Bill Gurley -
Management's job is to convey leadership's message in a compelling and inspiring way. Not just in meetings, but also by example.
Jeffrey Gitomer -
We’ve been through some little stormy periods before. I think we’ll overcome it.
Benjamin Hooks -
My ambitions have ambitions.
Behdad Sami
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Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.
Russell Banks -
Every role that I play is a gift and is something that I approach differently.
Jesse Johnson -
All rent is based on the monopoly power of private owners of certain portions of the globe.
David Harvey -
I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.
Martha Wainwright -
As an actor, I'd rather turn into Joffrey.
Dean-Charles Chapman -
I became the singer by default. I didn't know if I could do it. We tried other people, but couldn't find anyone we liked.
Wayne Hussey
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The most important thing as a filmmaker, the hardest journey you'll have, is to find your point of view.
Paul Greengrass -
Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes.
Henry Ward Beecher -
This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Enemies are so stimulating.
Katharine Hepburn -
Human nature doesn't really change a lot. We haven't changed that much and politics haven't changed that much. It's still the same things we're debating today that we did 300 years ago, which is a little bit scary when you think about it.
Nikolaj Arcel -
There is no inevitable connection between Christianity and cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it with vinegar?
William Morley Punshon
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The right type of [leader] is democratic. He must not consider himself a superior sort of personage. He must actually feel democratic; it is not enough that he try to pose as democratic-he must be democratic, otherwise the veneer, the sheen, would wear off, for you can't fool a body of intelligent American workingmen for very long. He must ring true.
T. Coleman du Pont -
Any time I get to work a home game, it's awesome.
D. B. Sweeney -
A lot of young actors look up to me, and I wouldn't trade that for any money in the world. I don't want to lose their respect and be a hypocrite.
James Caan -
I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
Oskar Werner -
Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.
Eudora Welty -
And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.
Plato
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I want to change as many lives as I can, I want to help as many people as I can and I want to let people know that serving and doing for people is not outdated and certainly not overrated!
Eric Thomas -
Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
Jack Nicholson