Your Quotes

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child.

Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I'd wake up and they'd be gone.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold.

You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.

Honor your commitments with integrity.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have. There are times when I physically can't get myself to go for a skill because I'm thinking, 'My knee hurts really bad.'

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

I think Barack Obama is a socialist. I think he cares for his country - don't get me wrong about that - but I think he truly misunderstands what this country was based upon, the values that America was based upon, which was free enterprise and having the ability to risk your capital and having a chance to have a return on your investment.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.