Winning Quotes to Inspire You to Achieve Your Goals - page 152

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses but that he almost wins.
The tragedy of life is not that a man loses but that he almost wins.
 Heywood Hale Broun
Enhanced interrogation gleaned information that saved American lives and - I was informed - prevented incoming terrorist attacks on this country from being successful.
The problem with the drone is it's like your lawn mower. You've got to mow the lawn all the time. The minute you stop mowing, the grass is going to grow back.
 Bruce Riedel
Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.
 Anthony Daniels
Personally, I consider 'Titanic' the most brilliant example of successful counterprogramming; the film actually countered itself by embedding an epic chick flick within a classic disaster movie.
 Diablo Cody
He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.
Business schools don't create successful people. They simply accept them, then take credit for their success.
 Josh Kaufman
I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.
 Charlize Theron
Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.
Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.
 David Bohm
The costs savings was a big win, but now we also have a schedule of events and are clearly aware of when our contracts begin and end...we are much more strategic about how we source now.
 Jason Kennedy
Strength wasn‘t about being able to do everything alone. Strength was knowing when to ask for help and not being too proud to do it.
I would want my children to grow up and do what they wish to in a field that they choose to step in. They should not have to use the shadow of their father's name. I think that is a bit of a downer for a movie star's children.
 Shahrukh Khan
Words are the wings of actions.
 Johann Kaspar Lavater
The notion that I might have been able to court friends, win attention, conjure it, would have spoiled it for me. Unbidden love was what I wanted.
 Edmund White
I hope to grow up and see myself accepting myself and accepting time going by and everything falls.
 Elena Anaya
There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
Success goes to those who dare to dream. And sometimes you have to take a little "scary action," as well.
 Joe Vitale
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.
 Caitlin Flanagan