Inspirational Quotes
Most of these quotes are one liners selected not only because of their perspective and wisdom, but so that you can learn them and use them to be a professional person of influence.
Favorite Success Quotes
Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong. Warren Buffett
A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan
Actually, I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years. Monty Hall
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. Sir Winston Churchill
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
General George S. Patton
Eighty percent of success is showing up. Woody Allen
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. Bill Cosby
You will find the key to success under the alarm clock. Benjamin Franklin
It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. Roger Babson
Favorite Leadership Quotes
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. Peter F. Drucker
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. George S. Patton
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight Eisenhower
A leader is a dealer in hope. Napoleon Bonaparte
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? Benjamin Disraeli
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
Elaine Agather
Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too. Robert Half
Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women. Groucho Marx
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Theodore M. Hesburgh
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. Theodore Roosevelt
Favorite Birthday Quotes
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. Oprah Winfrey
There is still no cure for the common birthday. John Glenn
A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. Dorothea Kent
Age is a number and mine is unlisted. Anonymous
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. William Shakespeare
Old age is always 15 years older than I am. Bernard Baruch
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives. Maurice Chevalier
My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud.
William Blake
Men are like wine: some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. Pope John XXIII
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. Abraham Sutzkever
Favorite Graduation Quotes
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success. Robert Orben
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world. Tom Brokaw
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. Anthony J. D'Angelo
You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. John Updike
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these. Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) American reformer
School's out, Memories past, Don't ever doubt, Our friendship will last. Unknown
Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors. Louisa May Alcott
Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. Richard Halliburton
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. B.F. Skinner
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. Garry Trudeau
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. W.H. Auden
The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate. Doug Larson
Study hard, and you might grow up to be President. But let's face it: Even then, you'll never make as much money as your dog. George Bush, (41st US president in a speech in 1992, to graduates after learning Millie, his dog, made $889,176 in book royalties.)
It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days. Isabel Waxman
There is a good reason they call these ceremonies "commencement exercises." Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning. Orrin Hatch
...Yes, the lectures are optional. Graduation is also optional. Bob Bickford
Your families are extremely proud of you. You can't imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money. Gary Bolding
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Russell Green
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Favorite Wedding Quotes
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Germaine Greer
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. Ogden Nash
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu
It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano. Arthur Rubinstein
Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar. Robert Frost
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. Homer
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination. Roy Goodman
Two souls with but a single thought,Two hearts that beat as one. Friedrich Halm
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. Martin Luther
"The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'." -- Dan Rather
"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much." -- Mother Teresa
"Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?" -- Dale Carnegie, Author and Trainer
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."
-- Thomas Edison
Favorite Inspirational Quote
Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right. Henry Ford
You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' George Bernard Shaw
Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another. Richard Bach (Illusions)
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. Jesse Jackson
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. Maya Angelou
There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Lewis Carroll
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw
The journey is the reward. Chinese Proverb
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. Elizabeth Kubler Ross
Favorite Famous Quotations
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein
If music be the food of love, play on. Shakespeare
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. Walt Disney
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. Henry Ford
I skate where the puck is going to be, not where it has been. Wayne Gretzky
When you come to a fork in the road, take it. Yogi Berra
We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. Hegel
The life which is unexamined is not worth living. Socrates
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. M.K. Gandhi
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Zig Ziglar
Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Franklin P. Jones
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. Plato
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost
If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
Sir James M. Barrie
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Henry Louis Mencken
Love is a friendship set to music. E. Joseph Cossman
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. Erich Segal
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. Voltaire
They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love. William Shakespeare
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. Lord Byron
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
This is my commandment, that ye love one another. Jesus, In John 15:12
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet. William Shakespeare
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. Henry Ward Beecher
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Kahlil Gibran
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith. Thomas Carlyle
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. Pearl Bailey
Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world. Wayne Dyer
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. Winston Churchill
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense. Helen Rowland
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. Michael Leunig
You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Anonymous
He loves but little who can say and count in words, how much he loves. Dante Alighieri
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. Diane Ackerman
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
Charles Caleb Colton
Love is a given, hatred is acquired. Doug Horton
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. Mark Overby
Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important. Lisa Hoffman
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
There is no remedy for love but to love more. Thoreau
If you would be loved, love and be lovable. Benjamin Franklin
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever. Unknown
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Teresa
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live. Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
A friend is someone who knows all about you, and loves you just the same. Proverb
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
John Lennon
Don't forget to love yourself. Soren Kierkegaard
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul. Victor Hugo
LOVE: The irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Mark Twain
I'm not rushing into being in love. I'm finding fourth grade hard enough. Regina 'Age 10'
Love is foolish ... but I still might try it sometime. Floyd 'Age 9'
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. Ingrid Bergman
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up. Barbara Bush
Love: Two minds without a single thought. Philip Barry
One good thing about Internet dating: you're guaranteed to click with whomever you meet. Mongo
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. Unknown
You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without. Unknown
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. Marie E. Eschenbach
I know that somewhere in the Universe exists my perfect soulmate -- but looking for her is much more difficult than just staying at home and ordering another pizza. Alf Whit
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox. Woody Allen
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. Albert Einstein
There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart. Melanie Griffith, Milk Money
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.
David Bissonette
Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand. Unknown
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull. H. L. Mencken
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. Pearl Bailey
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. Henny Youngman
You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories. Melanie Clark
Love can sometimes be magic . But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. Javan
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. Samuel Butler
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. Washington Irving
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. William Blake
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. Kahlil Gibran
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing. Anais Nin
The hottest love has the coldest end. Socrates
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy. Jean Anouilh
If you would be loved, love and be lovable. Benjamin Franklin
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. Margaret Mitchell
Real love stories never have endings. Richard Bach
Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse. Halen
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all. Lord Byron
Only from the heart can you touch the sky. Jalaluddin Rumi
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. Song of Songs 8:7
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. St. Francis of Assisi
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. Mother Teresa
He is not a lover who does not love forever. Euripides
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
Erich Fromm
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow. Erma Bombeck
The Japanese have a word for it.It's Judo -- the art of conquering by yielding.The Western equivalent of judo is, 'Yes, dear.'
J. P. McEvoy
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. Mae West
One advantage of marriage it seems to me is that when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you it keeps you together until maybe you fall in again. Judith Viorst
Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
Zig Ziglar
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. Martin Luther
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. Billy Sunday
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. Zsa Zsa Gabor
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. Henny Youngman
I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.
Johnny Carson
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? Abraham Lincoln
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard Bach, (Illusions)
A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself. Frank Crane
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. Edgar Watson Howe
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.
Albert Camus
The best time to make friends is before you need them. Ethel Barrymore
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light. Jennie Jerome Churchill
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. Arnold H. Glasgow
The road to a friend's house is never long. Danish Proverb
Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too. Thomas Fuller
Friendship consists of only one soul; inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend. St. Augustine
Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes is certain for those who are friends. Richard Bach, (Illusions)
Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure. The Bible
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. Mahatma Gandhi
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake. William Blake
Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes. The Talmud
He who has a thousand friends
Has not a friend to spare,
While he who has one enemy
Shall meet him everywhere. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends. William Butler Yeats
May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies. Voltaire
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. Dave Tyson Gentry
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. Joseph Addison
A true friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until lost. Chinese Proverb
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. Mark Twain
There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. Benjamin Franklin
Friends come and go but enemies accumulate. Arthur Bloch
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. Elbert Hubbard
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. Henry Brooks Adams
With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough. Chinese Proverb
In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want. Irish Toast
Life is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you're gonna get. Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks)
There are four basic food groups: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles. Anonymous
Make a list of important things to do today. At the top of your list, put 'eat chocolate.' Now, you'll get at least one thing done today. We believe this is from Gina Hayes
I never met a chocolate I didn't like. Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) in Star Trek: The Next Generation
And above all... Think Chocolate! 'Betty Crocker'
The 12-step chocoholics program: NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE! Terry Moore
All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt! Lucy Van Pelt in Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz
Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world's perfect food. Michael Levine, nutrition researcher, as quoted in The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars
I have this theory that chocolate slows down the aging process.... It may not be true, but do I dare take the chance?
Unknown
Smile, it enhances your face value. Truvy (Dolly Parton) in 'Steel Magnolias'
Stand up wherever you are, go to the nearest window and yell as loud as you can, 'I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore.' Howard Beale (Peter Finch) in 'Network'
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business , engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
Professor Keating (Robin Williams) in 'Dead Poet's Society'
Colonel Jessep (Jack Nicholson): You want answers? Kaffee (Tom Cruise): I want the truth. Jessep: You can't handle the truth. 'A Few Good Men'
How to deal with death is at least as important as how to deal with life.
Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) in 'Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan'
Eve (Anne Baxter): I'm afraid Mr. DeWitt would find me boring before too long. Miss Caswell (Marilyn Monroe): You won't bore him, honey. You won't even get a chance to talk. 'All About Eve'
Michael Corleone (Al Pacino): My father is no different than any powerful man, any man with power, like a President or senator. Kay Adams (Diane Keaton): Do you know how naive you sound, Michael? Presidents and senators don't have men killed. Michael Corleone: Oh. Who's being naive, Kay? 'The Godfather'
You don't have the sense God gave a donut, do you? Newspaperman Jack Buggit (Scott Glenn) to Quoyle (Kevin Spacey) in 'The Shipping News'
Scarlett (Vivien Leigh): Sir, you are no gentleman. Rhett (Clark Gable): And you Miss, are no lady. Don't think that I hold that against you. Ladies have never held any charm for me. 'Gone With The Wind'
In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns. Fabrizio (Angelo Infanti) in 'The Godfather'
Doctors and scientists said that breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead. Roger Bannister (After becoming the first person to break the four-minute mile, 1952)
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision. Muhammad Ali, American Boxer
When I step onto the court, I don't have to think about anything. If I have a problem off the court, I find that after I play, my mind is clearer and I can come up with a better solution. It's like therapy. It relaxes me and allows me to solve problems.
Michael Jordan
My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus. Carl Lewis
My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works. Tiger Woods
I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
Shaquille O'Neal
Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost. Martina Navratilova, American Tennis Player
Champions keep playing until they get it right. Billie Jean King
I'll let the racket do the talking. John McEnroe
When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition. Katarina Witt
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan
Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias, US Women's Golfer
I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. I don't have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it.
John Daly, American Golfer
For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream. Emmitt Smith, American Football Player
No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room. Muhammad Ali, American Boxer
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
Hank Aaron, American Baseball Player
When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win. Steffi Graf, German Tennis Player
When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment... quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life. Chris Evert Lloyd
Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man. Pele
Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. Jesse Owens
Football is like life -- it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Vince Lombardi, American Football Coach
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. Chief Justice Earl Warren
Golf is a good walk spoiled. Mark Twain
There is a syndrome in sports called "paralysis by analysis." Arthur Ashe
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose. Winston Churchill
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. Bob Hope
Although Golf was originally restricted to wealthy Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
Dave Barry
Olympism is a doctrine of the fraternity between the body and the soul. Pierre de Coubertin
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. Mark Twain
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. Henry David Thoreau
A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
Vince Lombardi, American Football Coach
Football is a mistake. It combines two of the worst things about American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. George Will
If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record. Jan McKeithen
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. George Bernard Shaw
When I joined the Tour I studied the best players to see what they did that I didn't do. I came to the conclusion that the successful players had the Three Cs: Confidence, Composure, Concentration. Bob Toski, American Golfer
In sports, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and competition. The developing athletes who make the fastest progress and those who ultimately become their best make extensive use of mental imagery. They use it daily as a means of directing what will happen in training, and as a way of pre-experiencing their best competition performances. Terry Orlick
So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be. But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician. Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated. Epictetus, Greek Stoic Philosopher
The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth, the springtime of mankind, a festival of supreme efforts, multiple ambitions and all forms of youthful activity celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood. Pierre de Coubertin
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. Blaise Pascal
I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies. Will Rogers
Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up. Bill Vaughn
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball. Bobby Knight
We have a great bunch of outside shooters. Unfortunately, all our games are played indoors. Weldon Drew
The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for the common goal.
Dave DeBusschere
I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.
Dave Barry
Basketball doesn't build character. It reveals it. Unknown
Talent wins games, but team work and intelligence wins championships. Michael Jordan
I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
As far as carrying the torch for the years to come, I don't know. I just want to be the best basketball player I can be.
Kobe Bryant
First master the fundamentals. Larry Bird
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds. Wilt Chamberlain
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not. Charles Barkley
Basketball is like photography, if you don't focus, all you have is the negative. Dan Frisby
Even when I'm old and gray, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game. Michael Jordan
Everyone can't be a professional player at sports, but everyone can be a professional sport as a player
From Upward Basketball
A tough day at the office is even tougher when your OFFICE contains spectator seating. Nik Posa
Great defense consists of 3 R's: read, react, and rotate. P. Carr
If you pay attention to the grandstands... it won't be long before you join them. Anonymous
Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals. Dr. James Naismith