People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.
I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
Challenge yourself, grow, blossom, and become who you were meant to be. Don’t ever stay at a job solely out of convenience or comfort. Aim higher, even if that means pursuing another job that’s just one step closer to your ultimate goal.
If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.
I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.
I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I’ve ever met.
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
My own saying is: ‘Create the hype, but don’t ever believe it.’
Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
My dad said to me, ‘Work hard and be patient.’ It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.
Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you’ve got to want it.
Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.
It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.
Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
I think feminism is the worst thing that ever happened to women. Our job used to be no job. We had it so good!
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.
Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.
When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.
Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It’s sterile. It’s nothing. It’s wasting your life.
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.
Everyone loves a winner. That’s just how the world is. And Ayrton Senna was one of the greatest winners this sport has ever had.
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
I don’t think you’ll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we’re always in search of an upgrade.
Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.
Like people coming up to me like, ‘Nobody ever told you that you look like Lil Baby?’ But I’ll be like, nah. Or like, somebody told me that. I’ll never just say, it’s me.
No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.
One of the greatest gifts I’ve ever gotten is my daughter.
I am always saying, ‘I don’t believe in God; I believe in Al Pacino.’ And that’s true. If I ever get a phone call saying ‘Would you like to work with Al Pacino?’ I would go crazy.
I was chef to the French Presidents between ’56 and ’59, finished with de Gaulle, and during de Gaulle I remember serving Eisenhower, Nehru, Tito, Macmillan; those were the heads of state at the time. I never saw anyone. No one would ever, ever, ever come to the kitchen. You couldn’t even see them.
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
In every age ‘the good old days’ were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
The monster was the best friend I ever had.
I can’t enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that things are in a muddle, and I have no power or vocation to set them right in ever so little a degree.
These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
The greatest set shooter ever? Larry Joe Bird. Period. The best coming off screen? Reginald Miller. And the best off the dribble? Steph Curry.
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
I love inspiring people, and I love making good music, but I don’t stress about it. I don’t think I’m ever going to win a Grammy, and I’m OK with that.
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
Free enterprise capitalism has been the most powerful creative system of social cooperation and human progress ever conceived, but its perception and its role in society have been distorted.
Compensation needs to be predominately performance-driven. If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM’s case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn’t make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn’t make millions of dollars.
No teacher ever skipped the student process… if you want to be a leader, you have to be a follower first.
Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don’t seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.
I’m a black kid from the ghetto of Coney Island, Brooklyn, who only ever dreamed of playing in the NBA. So to have that dream come true but then go on this second journey in China… it’s so far beyond anything that kid could have imagined.
I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.
The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.
If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.
I could never imagine ever in my life that I’d be on the side of The Louvre.
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don’t ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.
