You Quotes

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.

~ George Whitefield

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

~ Jessica Savitch

Wherever you are - be all there.

~ Jim Elliot

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

~ Brian Tracy

If you don't ask, you don't get.

~ Stevie Wonder

The more things you do, the more you can do.

~ Lucille Ball

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

~ Shakti Gawain

You have to make it happen.

~ Denis Diderot

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

~ William James

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

~ Swami Sivananda

How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?

~ J. D. Salinger

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

~ Phillips Brooks

If you've got a talent, protect it.

~ Jim Carrey

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

~ Flip Wilson

You never know what motivates you.

~ Cicely Tyson

Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?

~ Eliza Dushku

Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. And our businesses have been built for the last 150 years very much on that kind of motivational scheme.

~ Daniel H. Pink

I didn't plan on being a single mom, but you have to deal with the cards you are dealt the best way you can.

~ Tichina Arnold

A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.

~ Roseanne Barr

My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'

~ Paula Poundstone

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids.

~ Erma Bombeck

I love being a single mom. But it's definitely different when you're dating.

~ Brooke Burns

My mom always said, 'Marry someone smarter than yourself, Katee, because No. 1, you're not that smart. And No. 2, then you'll have smart babies.'

~ Katee Sackhoff

As a mom, you worry about protecting your kid. But there are extra added layers of fears when you're talking about a kid with autism or who has some special needs issue.

~ Holly Robinson Peete

You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.

~ Gabby Douglas

My mom always taught me - you know, little boys listen to their moms too much - that whatever you put into something is what you're going to get out of it.

~ Jay-Z

Definitely there are lots of days that l am really tired, especially after becoming a new mom. There's nothing more exhausting because physically, mentally, emotionally, it requires you to be on all the time.

~ Jenna Dewan

Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.

~ Taraji P. Henson

I'm not sure how young kids get to the point where they're memorizing and knowing songs, but I knew the words to 'Missing You' from John Waite probably from when I was three years old. For whatever reason, that was the song that I gravitated toward when it was on the radio and I was driving around with my mom.

~ Brandon Flowers

In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard.

~ Rebecca Lobo

Two weeks ago at the U.S. Amateur, my mom caddied, and that is kind of a different feeling, because she's your mom and you have to listen to her. It was really comfortable having my mom there, but it's also really relieving and comfortable to have someone that knows the course off their hat, really.

~ Lydia Ko

When you can impress your mom by saying you've been to someone's concert, you know you're pretty lame.

~ Gillian Jacobs

You really don't need to study how to change a diaper. As a new mom, you learn pretty darn quickly!

~ Ivanka Trump

I read that John Hughes script for 'Mr. Mom,' and I thought, 'This guy is a funny writer.' I went: 'You ought to stick around and direct this thing.' But he didn't; he left, and look what he became. A really legendary comedy director.

~ Michael Keaton

I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.

~ Penn Jillette

My mom, if you asked her if she was interested in whether or not people gambled, would say no.

~ Penn Jillette

My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'

~ Orlando Bloom

My mom and dad used to tell me, 'You've got to see this film,' and they were influential to a high degree of the films I saw as a kid.

~ Jason Statham

When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'

~ Tori Amos

I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.

~ Sylvester Stallone