- “A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.”
- “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”
- “Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.”
- “In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.”
- “It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.”
- “Live out of your imagination, not your history.”
- “Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”
- “Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.”
- “Public behavior is merely private character writ large.”
- “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”
- “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”
- “There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.”
- “We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.”
- “We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”
- “We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.”
“Sometimes i want to shout to the whole world how lucky i am to have you as my friend but sometimes i want to hush…afraid that somebody might take you away from me.” – Unknown
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”- Bernard Meltzer
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”- Aristotle
“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.” – Lois L. Kaufman
“Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.” – Swedish proverb
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.” – Aristotle
“A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.” – Homer
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.” – Czech Proverb
- “I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not trying.”
- “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.”
- “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”
- “Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.”
- “I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot… when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.”
- “Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.”
- “I’ve failed over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”
- “I don’t do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.”
- “I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.”
- “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”
- “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
- “You are what you love, not what loves you. That’s what I decided a long time ago.” – Adaptation
- “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” – Annie
- “This kind of certainty comes but once in a lifetime.” – Bridges of Madison County
- “…someday my wish is for him to hold me in his arms, in a sea of deep blue, together at last, together as two.” – Can’t Buy Me Love
- “Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love” which any of us can convince ourselves we are.” – Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
- “Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.” – Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
- “Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.” – Casablanca
- “If I tell you I love you, can I keep you forever?” – Casper
- “Life is messy. Love is messier.” – Catch and Release
- “A dream is a wish your heart makes.” – Cinderella
- “I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.” – City of Angels
- “My husband and I fell in love at first sight… maybe I should have taken a second look.” – Crimes and Misdemeanors
- “Love is not a feeling, it’s an ability.” – Dan in Real Life
- “There are only four questions of value in life.
What is sacred?
Of what is the spirit made of?
What is worth living for?
What is worth dying for?
The answer to each is the same. Only love.” – Don Juan Demarco
- “You’re a romantic. You have a lyrical soul. You can love under the best and worst conditions.” – Drew Barymore, Fever Pitch
- “Life is like a box of choclates, you never know what your gonna get.” – Forest Gump
- “When you love someone,
And you love them with your heart,
It never disappears,
When you’re apart.
And when you love someone
And you’ve done all you can do,
You set them free,
And if that love was true…
When you love someone
It will all come back to you.” – Forget Paris
- “A heart can be broken; but it keeps beating just the same.” – Fried Green Tomatoes
- “It doesn’t matter if the guy is perfect or the girl is perfect, as long as they are perfect for each other.” – Good Will Hunting
- “You’re not perfect sport, and let me save you the suspense, this girl you met, she isn’t perfect either. But the question is whether or not you’re perfect for each other.” – Good Will Hunting
- “Love actually is all around us.” – Hugh Grant, Love Actually
- “You make me want to be a better man.” – Jack Nicholson, As Good As It Gets
- “To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love; but then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love; to be happy then is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy; therefore to be unhappy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you’re getting this down.” – Love and Death
- “When a divorce lawyer gets married it’s the triumph of hope over experience.” – Love is a Four Letter Word
- “Sometimes in life there really are bonds formed that can never be broken. Sometimes you really can find that one person who will stand by you no matter what. Maybe you’ll find it in a spouse and celebrate it with your dream wedding, but there’s also the chance that the one person you can count on for a lifetime, the one person who knows you sometimes better than you know yourself is the same person who’s been standing beside you all along.” – Marion St. Claire, Bride Wars
- “Love is passion, obsession, someone you can’t live without. If you don’t start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who’ll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I’m not hearing any heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you’ll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love – well, you haven’t lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven’t tried, you haven’t lived.” – Meet Joe Black
- “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” – Moulin Rouge
- “Love is a many splendid thing; Love lift us up where we belong; All you need is love.” – Moulin Rouge
- “Your eyes are the sweetest stars I’ve ever seen.” – Moulin Rouge
- “Storm clouds may gather and stars may collide, but I love you, until the end of time.” – Moulin Rouge
- “We should be lovers, and that’s a fact.” – Moulin Rouge
- “Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place,
suddenly it moves with such a perfect grace,
suddenly my life doesn’t seem such a waste,
it all revolves around you.” – Moulin Rouge
- “There’s an Italian painter, named Carlotti, and he defined beauty…He said it was the summation of the parts, working together in such a way that nothing needed to be added, taken away, or altered, and thats you, you’re beautiful.” – Nicolas Cage, Next
- “I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.” – Notting Hill
- “I am someone else when I’m with you, someone more like myself.” – Original Sin
- “I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen.” – Say Anything
- “I gave her my heart, she gave me a pen.” – Say Anything, Lloyd Dobler
- “Nobody thinks it will work, do they? No. You just described every great success story.” – Say Anything, Lloyd Dobler and Diane Court
- “If the people we love are stolen from us,
The way to have them live on, is to remember them.
Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.” – The Crow
- “In these dreams I’ve loved you so, that by now I think I know what it’s like to be loved by you. I will love being loved by you.” – The King and I
- “Summer romances begin for all kinds of reasons, but when all is said and done, they have one thing in common. They’re shooting stars, a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, fleeting glimpse of eternity, and in a flash they’re gone.” – The Notebook
- “Love is friendship on fire.” – The Perfect Man
- “Hearts will be practical only when they are made unbreakable.” – The Wizard of Oz
- “Promise me you’ll survive. That you won’t give up, no matter what happens, no matter how hopeless.” – Titanic
- “I dream about being with you forever.” – Twilight
- “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” – When Harry Met Sally
- “I love that you get cold when it is 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle in your nose when you’re looking at me like I’m nuts. I love that after I spend day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it’s not because I’m lonely, and it’s not because it’s New Year’s Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” – When Harry Met Sally
- “I love that you get cold when it is 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle in your nose when you’re looking at me like I’m nuts. I love that after I spend day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it’s not because I’m lonely, and it’s not because it’s New Year’s Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” – When Harry Met Sally
- “Without a heart I can never really know what it would be like to love someone.” – Wizard of Oz
- “Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.” – Wizard of Oz
- “And my goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.” – Michael Jackson
- “In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.” – Michael Jackson
- “The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.” – Michael Jackson
- “If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.” – Michael Jackson
- “I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.” – Michael Jackson
- “People who grew up as child stars have the same thing in common. You’re cute, they love you; you go through the awkward stage, they don’t accept you any more. Very few make the transition to adult star.” – Michael Jackson
- “I believe in my heart that the music community will come together as one and rally to the aid of thousands of innocent victims, … There is a tremendous need for relief dollars right now and through this effort each one of us can play an immediate role in helping comfort so many people.” – Michael Jackson
- “Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.” – Michael Jackson
- “It pains me to watch the human suffering taking place in the Gulf region of my country.” – Michael Jackson
- “We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.” – Cicero
- “Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.” – Euripides
- “They can because they think they can.” – Virgil
- “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.” – Theodore T. Hunger
- “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
- “The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.” – Frank Loyd Wright
- “A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “There is only one success–to be able to spend your life in your own way.” – Christopher Morley
- “The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis
- “The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two: common-sense and perseverance.” – Owen Feltham
- “Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.” – Dennis Waitley
- “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” – Vince Lombardi
- “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–which is: Try to please everybody.” – Herbert Bayard Swope
- “Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.” – Josh Billings
- “The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” – Earl of Beaconsfield
- “Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.” – Evan Esar
- “The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- “If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.” – Jospeph Addison
- “Impatience never commanded success.” – Edwin H. Chapin
- “The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.” – Henry W. Longfellow
- “To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.” – Shakespeare
- “Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.” – Albert Einstein
- “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no use being a damn fool about it.” – W.C. Fields
- “The hair is the richest ornament of women.” – Martin Luther
- “Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices.” – Shana Alexander
- “Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like.” – Unknown
- “It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.” – George Dennison Prentice, Prenticeana, 1860
- “What’s the matter with you guys? The sight of blonde hair knocks you three rungs down on the evolutionary ladder.” – From the television show Civil Wars
- “The great ages of prose are the ages in which men shave. The great ages of poetry are those in which they allow their beards to grow.” – Robert Lynd
- “Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” – Kahlil Gibran
- “I’m not offended by all the dumb-blonde jokes because I know that I’m not dumb. I also know I’m not blonde.” – Dolly Parton
- “It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.” – Raymond Chandler
- “Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself.” – Hubert de Givenchy, Vogue, July 1985
- “Babies haven’t any hair:
Old men’s heads are just as bare;
From the cradle to the grave
Lies a haircut and a shave.” – Samuel Goodman Hoffenstein
- “Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.” – Sam Ewing
- “Women…. Who made ‘em? God must have been a… genius. Their hair. They say that the hair is everything, you know? Have you ever buried your nose in a mountain of curls, and just wanted to go to sleep forever?” – Bo Goldman, “The Start of an Education”, made popular by the movie Scent of a Woman
- “When red headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.” – Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
- “Those curious locks so aptly twin’d,
Whose every hair a soul doth bind.” – Thomas Carew
- “If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?” – Lily Tomlin
- “Long, beautiful, gleaming, steaming, flaxen, waxen… I adore hair!” – James Rado and Gerome Ragni, Hair
- “Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers.” – Fran Lebowitz
- “Beauty draws us with a single hair.” – Alexander Pope
- “Gentlemen prefer blondes… but gentlemen marry brunettes.” – Anita Loos
- “That guitar is okay but you’ll never make a living with it” – John’s Aunt Mimi
- “What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that.” – John Lennon
- “We thought that if we lasted for two to three years that would be fantastic.” – Ringo Starr
- “When you’re drowning, you don’t say «I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me», you just scream.” – John Lennon, 1970
- “I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.” – Paul McCartney, 1969
- “I’m a tidy sort of bloke. I don’t like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box.” – George Harrison, 1969
- “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one” – The Catcher in the Rye
- “Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans” - John Lennon
- “We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?” – John Lennon
- “I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, «You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don’t need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it’s the very best, and it’s the part I give most willingly»” – George Harrison
- “I am not the Beatles. I’m me.Paul isn’t the Beatles…The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.” – John Lennon
- “The things is, we’re all really the same person. We’re just four parts of the one.” – Paul McCartney
- “John had his thing, and Paul had his, and together there were two different things all together. But they fit.” – Billy Preston
- “When I was about twelve, I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody’s noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius…I am one, and if there isn’t, I don’t care.” – John Lennon
“As far as I’m concerned, there won’t be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.” – George Harrison
- “Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.” – John Lennon in a 1966 interview
- “I’m not saying we’re better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person, or God as a thing, or whatever it is. I just said what I said, and it was wrong, or it was taken wrong. And now it’s all this.” – John Lennon
- “There’s a lot of random in our songs…writing, thinking, letting others think of bits-then bam, you’ve the jigsaw puzzle.” – Paul McCartney
- “Love is like a flower, give it time and it will grow” – John Lennon
- “If you don’t ask me out to dinner, I don’t eat”
- “Just cause you feel it, doesn’t mean it’s there.”
- “A heart that’s full up like a landfill and a job that slowly kills you.”
- “May pretty horses come to you as you sleep”
- “Street Spirit (Fade Out)”
- “I Want None Of This”
- “How You See The World No. 2.”
- “If I could be who you wanted all the time.”
- “I keep falling over, I keep passing out when I see a face like you.”
- “I’ll be waiting with a gun and a pack of sandwiches, and nothing.”
- “This is like deja vu all over again.”
- “You can observe a lot just by watching.”
- “He must have made that before he died.” — Referring to a Steve McQueen movie.
- “I want to thank you for making this day necessary.” — On Yogi Berra Appreciation Day in St. Louis in 1947.
- “I’d find the fellow who lost it, and, if he was poor, I’d return it.” — When asked what he would do if he found a million dollars.
- “Think! How the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time?”
- “You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.”
- “I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.”
- “If you don’t know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.”
- “If you can’t imitate him, don’t copy him.”
- “You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.”
- “Baseball is 90% mental — the other half is physical.”
- “It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much.”
- “Slump? I ain’t in no slump. I just ain’t hitting.”
- “A nickel isn’t worth a dime today.”
- “Nobody goes there anymore; it’s too crowded.”
- “It gets late early out there.” — Referring to the bad sun conditions in left field at the stadium.
- “Glen Cove.” — Referring to Glenn Close on a movie review television show.
- Once, Yogi’s wife Carmen asked, “Yogi, you are from St. Louis, we live in New Jersey, and you played ball in New York. If you go before I do, where would you like me to have you buried?” Yogi replied, “Surprise me.”
- “Do you mean now?” — When asked for the time.
- “I take a two hour nap, from one o’clock to four.”
- “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
- “You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn’t enough in the second half you give what’s left.”
- “90% of the putts that are short don’t go in.”
- “I made a wrong mistake.”
- “Texas has a lot of electrical votes.” — During an election campaign, after George Bush stated that Texas was important to the election.
- “Thanks, you don’t look so hot yourself.” — After being told he looked cool.
- “I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.”
- “Yeah, but we’re making great time!” — In reply to “Hey Yogi, I think we’re lost.”
- “If the fans don’t come out to the ball park, you can’t stop them.”
- “Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.”
- “It’s never happened in the World Series competition, and it still hasn’t.”
- “How long have you known me, Jack? And you still don’t know how to spell my name.” — Upon receiving a check from Jack Buck made out to “bearer.”
- “I’d say he’s done more than that.” — When asked if first baseman Don Mattingly had exceeded expectations for the current season.
- “The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.”
- “He can run anytime he wants. I’m giving him the red light.” — On the acquisition of fleet Ricky Henderson.
- “I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat, and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?”
- “It ain’t the heat; it’s the humility.”
- “The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.”
- “You should always go to other people’s funerals; otherwise, they won’t come to yours.”
- “I didn’t really say everything I said.”