Make Quotes by Mark Twain, Caroline Kennedy, Deepak Chopra, Anne Frank, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Angelique Kerber and many others.
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
When you make the right decision, it doesn’t really matter what anyone else thinks.
You can’t make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind’s greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
Don’t make things too complicated. Try to relax, enjoy every moment, get used to everything.
As humans, we’re going to make mistakes. It’s what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you’re lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.
A bowler can make or break a chap.
Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
I don’t make music for eyes. I make music for ears.
There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn’t come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, ‘I’m going to make it through all of this.’
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
We must shift our thinking away from short-term gain toward long-term investment and sustainability, and always have the next generations in mind with every decision we make.
You have to make every day count toward your dream.
Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
I do believe in the old saying, ‘What does not kill you makes you stronger.’ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.
My style is pretty clean, classic, and elegant, with some elements to make it a little funkier. If you see me on a normal day, I’m usually in a T-shirt and jeans, maybe with some cool sneakers, but I’m pretty basic.
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Make yourself look really stupid so you don’t feel bad doing something a little stupid.
Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable.
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement – and we will make the goal.
If you really are passionate about it, you’re just going to find a way to make it happen.
I couldn’t sell water in a desert. I have no business acumen. I can tell you why you have no business acumen, and I can tell you why your project may or may not work, but I have no ability to make money.
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.
There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors.
Storms make trees take deeper roots.
Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Tough times not only make you stronger, but you grow from those experiences. The same is true with fighting. You have to lean into it.
I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person.
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.
Before I make a mistake, I don’t make that mistake.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that’s 40,000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says ‘go outside.’
I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.
Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.
If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.
Employees are a company’s greatest asset – they’re your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best; provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company’s mission.
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
It is always good to make new friends.
I don’t trust politicians. I think that by the time they’ve made it, with the concessions they’ve had to make in that position, I don’t believe they still have the beliefs they had at the root.
My theory on life is that life is beautiful. Life doesn’t change. You have a day, and a night, and a month, and a year. We people change – we can be miserable or we can be happy. It’s what you make of your life.
You can’t please everyone. There’s always going to be someone disappointed, so you might as well make yourself happy and Be You.
Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Take risks. Ask big questions. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes; if you don’t make mistakes, you’re not reaching far enough.
There’s only one true superpower amongst human beings, and that is being funny. People treat you differently if you can make them laugh.
Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.
I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.
Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
I really haven’t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.
Follow your dreams. Just make sure to have fun too.
Two halves don’t make a whole. Two wholes make a whole. In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn’t doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.
Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.
All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
Aaah, summer – that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It’s a time to hunt for insects, master handstands, practice swimming strokes, conquer trees, explore nooks and crannies, and make new friends.
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders – not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
Being real is what keeps me humble. It doesn’t matter how much money I make or how much I accomplish. What’s critical is staying real to myself and keeping my feet on the ground. That’s what helps keep me going.
You can lead a man to Congress, but you can’t make him think.
You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
Everyone has their own different life experiences which make them who they are. No two people’s life experiences are the same. And mine are just unique to me.
You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.
Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
I know I haven’t always done things the right way. I’m just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.
I’m just really a free spirit. You gotta be like that. ‘Cause life ain’t that complicated. It’s only that complicated when you make it that way. I just wanna wake up and move with the way it goes. If it’s meant to happen, it will happen.
One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good.
If you’re gonna make connections which are innovative… you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.
When you make the finding yourself – even if you’re the last person on Earth to see the light – you’ll never forget it.
The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
Your dreams are what define your individuality. They have the power to give you wings and make you fly high.
We build our legacy piece by piece, and maybe the whole world will remember you or maybe just a couple of people, but you do what you can to make sure you’re still around after you’re gone.
Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking – or lack of thinking.
Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.
We’re all so busy we don’t make time to enjoy our lives, good company and good food.
Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I’m not going to do that. That takes away my power. I’m not going to compromise who I am.
I have so much chaos in my life, it’s become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they’re wrong.
People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
Times of transition are strenuous, but I love them. They are an opportunity to purge, rethink priorities, and be intentional about new habits. We can make our new normal any way we want.
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
The first thing I do every day when I wake up is thank God for letting me make it through the night and giving me another day of life – just because sometimes I wake up, and I cannot believe I’m doing what I’m doing. I just thank Him. I don’t know how I deserve it, but it’s completely because of Him.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Money begets money. If you don’t have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that’s generating income for yourself.
What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think ‘outside the box,’ people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one; the man who requires you to do so is dearly purchased at a sacrifice.
The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
Make a difference today for someone who’s fighting for their tomorrow.
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don’t imagine, it will never happen.
I did many stupid things. I made many mistakes, but I learnt from everything. I still make mistakes; I still learn from them. Nobody is perfect.
The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you’ve got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don’t give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.
Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
Festivals promote diversity, they bring neighbors into dialogue, they increase creativity, they offer opportunities for civic pride, they improve our general psychological well-being. In short, they make cities better places to live.
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what’s the point in life?
I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let’s kiss afresh, as when we first begun.
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones.
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.
If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.
I don’t make a particular distinction between ‘high art’ and ‘low art.’ Music is there for everybody. It’s a river we can all put our cups into and drink it and be sustained by it.
To become a great player, you’ve got to show real dedication and commitment to football, and you’ve got to be very humble and hard-working. And, above all, you’ve got to fight to make your dreams come true.
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.
Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.
You don’t make peace with your friends. You make peace with your enemies.
Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
History isn’t something you look back at and say it was inevitable, it happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities.
Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.
I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.
I just claim to do what I do, which is to sing old songs and try to make them cool.
It’s our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it won’t make your soul pretty.
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
Some sunshine is good for the soul, but I always make sure I wear a big hat.
Age and size are only numbers. It’s the attitude you bring to clothes that make the difference.
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.
Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.
Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist.
Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.
You gotta have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?
I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
I think it’s important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy.
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
You’ve got to make tough decisions, sometimes unpopular decisions… Whatever it is, if it’s the right move at the right time, you’ve got to be also willing to make mistakes.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
When people have too many choices, they make bad choices.
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
A cute outfit can really make your day. If I wear something I look good in, my mood just goes way up.
The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God’s plan seems like it doesn’t make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.
We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
You can’t make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you’re doing is recording it.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don’t let them take you ALIVE.
People should debate. They shouldn’t be afraid to talk. You should listen to what other people think and how they make decisions. There should be an exchange of ideas and opinions because that’s how we learn.
It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.
Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.
My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can to care for your family.
Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices – and in particular, difficult cuts.
Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.
Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement.
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it.
Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.
Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
If you believe you can make a difference, not just in politics, in public service, in advocacy around all these important issues, then you have to be prepared to accept that you are not going to get 100 percent approval.
Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.
Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
To catch a piece of life on camera and make it come alive, add layers to it and deliver a product that is wholesome is really exciting to me.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
I think you can make fun of anything except things people can’t help. They can’t help their race or their sex or their age, so you ridicule their pretension or their ego instead. You can ridicule ideas – ideas don’t have feelings. You can ridicule an idea that someone holds without hurting them.
It’s so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs… we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.
Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door – or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
When an underdog wins, they win for everybody, because somebody gotta come through that door and break it open and make it possible.
Never walk into a hospital crying. Have an attitude that you will make someone else’s life better.
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.
Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
Don’t Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we’re still at the mercy of nature.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.
I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.
I think it’s easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn’t make a good citizen.
The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Showing up is like 90 percent of the battle, and just make sure your hair is really cute.
I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile, and I want to make people laugh. And that’s all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.
I’m here. I’m not going anywhere. No matter what the injury – unless it’s completely debilitating – I’m going to be the same player I’ve always been. I’ll figure it out. I’ll make some tweaks, some changes, but I’m still coming.
The older I get, the more I’m conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Tiny little things, but the world is made up of tiny matters, isn’t it?
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.
It’s just the risk that I take and the sacrifice that I make: Putting myself, my career, my family’s peace of mind on the line just to do right by my fans. It ain’t no gray area: You’re either with that and willing to go out of your way to make people who contribute to your dreams coming true happy or you aren’t.
Why don’t they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.
When it comes to luck, you make your own.
The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun.
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.
You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that’s where you’ll find success – on the far side of failure.
There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.
I’m not perfect; I make mistakes all the time. All I can do is to try my best to learn from my mistakes, take responsibility for them, and do a better job tomorrow.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.
No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma – but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
Never give up, and be confident in what you do. There may be tough times, but the difficulties which you face will make you more determined to achieve your objectives and to win against all the odds.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.
You know, we have two families: the one we’re born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards.
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
Aim for the sky, but move slowly, enjoying every step along the way. It is all those little steps that make the journey complete.
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.
One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.
The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise… Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
People ask ‘do you make a conscious effort not to swear?’ – if you’re doing silly stuff you’re not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.
A beautiful person is someone who stays true to themselves and their spirit; someone who is self-confident and can make you smile.
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
You need to aim beyond what you are capable of. You must develop a complete disregard for where your abilities end. Try to do things that you’re incapable of… If you think you’re incapable of running a company, make that your aim… Make your vision of where you want to be a reality. Nothing is impossible.
I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Don’t just count your years, make your years count.
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, ‘Make me feel important.’ Never forget this message when working with people.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.
Make sure to save for the future and keep making money!
All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
Don’t let people make you afraid of taking chances in life. And if you fail, it’s no big deal. Get back up and fight through it and be successful again. If you did it once, you can do it again.
Short cuts make long delays.
To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.
There are two different things: there’s grilling, and there’s barbecue. Grilling is when people say, ‘We’re going to turn up the heat, make it really hot and sear a steak, sear a burger, cook a chicken.’ Barbecue is going low and slow.
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them… I consider myself a student of cinema. It’s almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
We need to make sure we’re all working together to change mindsets, to change attitudes, and to fight against the bad habits that we have as a society.
Make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You push for colour-blind casting; you draw your own box. You introduce yourself as who you are, not what colour your parents happen to be.
That’s my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.
Economics is everywhere, and understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life.
Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
I’ll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
It’s all make believe, isn’t it?
I may be crazy, but that don’t make me wrong.
The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.
The memories we make with our family is everything.
I make sure I always surround myself with good, down to earth, fun, real people, who always keep me grounded.
Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven’t done a thing. You are just talking.
Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
Sometimes the point isn’t to make people believe a lie – it’s to make people fear the liar.
Sometimes in life, you have to make a selfish decision and do what’s best for you.
Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.
It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
Creating something new is the difficult part. To make it and build it and get everyone to follow? Amazing.
There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.
Life is a chess match. Every decision that you make has a consequence to it.
Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That’s pretty much my principle.
Comedy is surprises, so if you’re intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh, that’s funny.
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
Don’t violate your own code of values and ethics, but don’t waste energy trying to make other people violate theirs.
Yes’m, old friends is always best, ‘less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of.
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it’s up to me.
Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I’m lucky enough to be in the position where I don’t make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
The thing is, we live in a contemporary world, and being able to make yourself the best person you can possible be can be difficult. But as long as you’re trying to figure it out, and you’re really looking in the right direction, everything’s going to be all right.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.
The most valuable investment we can make is in our children’s education. When we make education a priority, we give our children opportunity. Opportunity to learn at higher levels than their parents were able to learn; to earn at higher levels than we were able to earn.
You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can – prepare, pray and achieve – to make it happen.
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ’cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.
War is hugely profitable. It creates so much money because it’s so easy to spend money very fast. There are huge fortunes to be made. So there is always an encouragement to promote war and keep it going, to make sure that we identify people who are ‘others’ whom we can legitimately make war upon.
I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don’t make that mistake yourself. Life’s too damn short.
You must spend money to make money.
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
The first thing I heard when I got in the business – not from my mentor – was, ‘Bulls make money, bears make money, and pigs get slaughtered.’ I’m here to tell you I was a pig. And I strongly believe the only way to make long-term returns in our business that are superior is by being a pig.
It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.
I think there’s no limit to ambition, and if you want something, you can make anything happen, so go for it.
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
If you don’t know where you make your mistakes, that’s your worst mistake: not knowing where your mistakes are at.
Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we’re going to win.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
I failed to make the chess team because of my height.
The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
Britney would make a better prostitute than Christina. She’s thicker.
I did not come to NASA to make history.
To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can’t see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.
The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
Everyone has complicated lives, but the more you can simplify it and make it work for you, the better it is going to be.
The most important decision I’ve made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, ‘Come on everybody, we made it.’ Then I had to realize we didn’t make it. I made it.
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Germans make nice cars.
Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.
Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams. Dig deeper into your dreams and deeper into yourself and believe that anything is possible, and make it happen.
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they make a good excuse.
Your mindset matters. It affects everything – from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being.
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.
Hugs make you feel psychologically more secure and together.
Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books – especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It’s not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way of life, a perspective, a habit that becomes a discipline – and more than anything else, compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience.
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one’s day and every night to examine the results obtained.
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission – to make the world more open and connected.
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.
Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source – a Sower of Dreams – just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true.
I’ve prioritized taking care of my mind, having fun, and doing things that make me laugh. And eating well – as in, really good food, like steak or pasta or fresh vegetables or an amazing dessert. You know, ‘treat yo’self.’
You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don’t want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something.
Just because you make a good plan, doesn’t mean that’s what’s gonna happen.
You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
If life gives you lemons, make some kind of fruity juice.
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
If it’s going to make you happy, go for it – life is short.
My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.
I try to keep in mind that it’s a long journey. It’s not a race. It’s about staying focused, continuing to do good work, make my family and community proud; that’s all I really want to do… and pay my bills.
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
We live on this speck called Earth – think about what you might do, today or tomorrow – and make the most of it.
Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count.
My mother had a saying: ‘Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.’
A healthy friendship is one where you share your true feelings without fearing the end of the relationship. It’s also one where you sometimes have to let things that bug you slide. The tough moments will make you wiser about yourself and each other. They will also make you stronger and closer as friends.
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
I will continue to work as hard as I can to make this organization proud. Every time I step on the field I will give everything I have and I will leave everything I have on the field every single Sunday.
No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good.
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
My mission is to make the world happy and cute and to love everyone. I think I’m doing a pretty good job.
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one’s nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.
Life is hard, but we make it much harder.
Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
I take the bull by the horns and make a plan and go for it.
Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body – by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.
Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I’m pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.
I think there’s no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people’s lives and improve the world.
Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.
It’s always great to engage with people. You never know who you can make an effect on. And I love interacting with the fans, hearing what they have to say and joking around with them. Anytime I can reach out online and give encouragement, motivate people, be a better citizen, that’s what it’s all about, man.
In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.
Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.
Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody’s buying far too many clothes.
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.
Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.
Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn’t thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I’m just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn’t paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
We all make mistakes. God knows I’ve made more than anyone else I know.
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.
Many hands make light work.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.
Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.
When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you’re making a commitment and difference in that person’s life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
Most people don’t like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.
You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.
Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
Every choice you make has an end result.
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
Don’t look too far into the future, just look at tomorrow. One day at a time. Can you win tomorrow? Can you make progress? The answer is yes, you have a choice and tomorrow you’re going to win.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.
There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people.
All I’m trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
I always wanted to be a character actor rather than the poster boy that they tried to make me 100 years ago. An actor has a degree of responsibility to change for the audience, to give them something new each time, to surprise and not bore them.
‘Back To Love’ is a way of letting people know that sometimes you get caught up in trying to be successful in school or in your social life, and it’s a reminder not to forget that each day people are getting older. Nobody is promised tomorrow, so we should make sure that we spend quality time with quality people.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
Small things make me smile.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
It takes all kinds to make the world go ’round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society.
What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?
Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There’s a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life… it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place – police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.
I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.
People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.
Lord, make my way prosperous, not that I achieve high station, but that my life may be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.
HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.
You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don’t make moves and when you don’t climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you’re not competition.
So I said to the gym instructor: ‘Can you teach me to do the splits?’ He said: ‘How flexible are you?’ I said: I can’t make Tuesdays.’
Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.
Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.
In motivating people, you’ve got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example – and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.
I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child.
If my kid couldn’t draw I’d make sure that my kitchen magnets didn’t work.
I’m very comfortable in my skin. Everyone has insecurities – I joke around about wishing I had more cheeks – but I’m happy with who I am. You have to make do with what you have. If you carry yourself right, you can make anything look good.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.
We think, each of us, that we’re much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it’s the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we’ve already made the decision.
I’d like to get four people who do cart wheels very good, and make a cart.
We young Filipinos are trying to make over a nation and must not halt in our march, but from time to time turn our gaze upon our elders. We shall wish to read in their countenances approval of our actions.
Great hopes make great men.
I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.
I’m not religious. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the pitch. If it works all matches must therefore end in a draw.
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you’ve got something to share.
Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Men are liars. We’ll lie about lying if we have to. I’m an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.
Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.
It’s not how you start the season, it’s how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that’s what you play for. You don’t play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it’s make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing your time in that.
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.
An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.
It takes a few to make war, but it takes a village and a nation to build peace.
You can’t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother’s, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don’t have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it’s not enough.
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else’s expense. And I find that that’s just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else’s feelings.
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I’m doing, they should do it. And what I want to do is find things that would represent a unique contribution to the world – the contribution that only I, and my portfolio of talents, can make happen. Those are my priorities in life.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
This digital world is what you make of it in the end.
If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.
You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.
Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
The wildest colts make the best horses.
If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
More and more, I am realizing that life is too short to do crap that doesn’t make you happy, and we only get one shot at it all.
Surround yourself with good people; surround yourself with positivity and people who are going to challenge you to make you better.
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.
What I’ve never understood is why some women use plastic surgery to make themselves more attractive to men. The most beautiful woman is someone who’s happy and is always smiling.
One things guys have to remember is consistency… You can’t make up for three years of eating poorly in just one workout.
I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.
One and God make a majority.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
There is no decision that we can make that doesn’t come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
I have a complex feeling about genre. I love it, but I hate it at the same time. I have the urge to make audiences thrill with the excitement of a genre, but I also try to betray and destroy the expectations placed on that genre.
If you stop at general math, you’re only going to make general math money.
It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.
To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
What has happened has happened. What is done cannot be undone. There is no point in looking back and ruminating over the past. I am a forward-looking man. I want to look ahead; I want to put my past behind me. I want to make my country proud.
Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.
I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.
If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods’ bodies the same shape as their own.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.
Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don’t live in the shadows of people’s judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.
The secret of my success is that I make other people money. And, never ever, ever, ever be ashamed about trying to earn as much as possible for yourself, if the person you’re working with is also making money. That’s life!
An individual can make a difference, but a team can make a miracle.
There’s no success story. Everybody’s got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.
Companies figured out that the easiest way to make money was to reissue records that the accounting department had paid for years ago and already made a profit.
There are many ways to push for much-needed reforms: One way is to make a donation. It doesn’t matter much whether you contribute publicly or in a private way – either way is good. What matters is your true intention.
I make sure that I spend quality time with my family.
Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.
When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
Never make predictions, especially about the future.
It’s like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
Map out your future – but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.
Always remember, money isn’t everything – but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.
When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous of them. But I place as a prior condition the education of the people, that by means of instruction and industry our country may have an individuality of its own and make itself worthy of these liberties.
Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.
I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I’ve become. If I had, I’d have done it a lot earlier.
I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
My boy, one small breeze doesn’t make a wind storm.
You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart.
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make me feel important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
You get out of life what you put into it. I think you need a bit of luck but you also make a bit of luck. I think that if you’re a pretty decent person you’ll get back what you put in.
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.