Winning Quotes to Inspire You to Achieve Your Goals - page 188

Growing up, we didn\'t have anything. My mum wasn\'t well, so I was in three care homes then foster homes before me and my little brother went back to her. I was passed from pillar to post.
Growing up, we didn't have anything. My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then foster homes before me and my little brother went back to her. I was passed from pillar to post.
 Rebecca Ferguson
My life has been full of struggles - coming from a troubled home, moving out when I was fifteen, ending up homeless by eighteen. The one thing I always knew was being jaded and bitter was equal to letting life win.
It's not sipping wine. It's a mourning wine. You drain it. Like this.
I am concerned about the growing problem of sexual abuse and exploitation of our children.
 Jim Ryun
It's tough to have a movie-star persona when you're on a show as successful as 'Friends.'
 Matthew Perry
I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.
 Vincent Van Gogh
You cannot compare your athletic achievement to the importance of children and giving them a safe environment in which to grow up and enjoy life.
 Steffi Graf
The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.
The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have.
 Nido R Qubein
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
I was taught to fighter like Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali when I was growing up.
 Nonito Donaire
They [ Germany, Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia] will fully understand. They're economic behemoths. They're tremendously successful countries, but we're subsidizing them for billions and billions of dollars.
We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice.
 Alexander Smith
You can go as far as your mind lets you.
 Mary Kay Ash
I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
 Pat Robertson
In tennis you move a lot. Golf you dont. In tennis, you can have a bad half-hour, but you cant in golf. You can lose the first set in tennis and still win.
 Ivan Lendl
True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.
 Louis Kronenberger
A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help.
A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help.
 Lionel Shriver
I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.
 Jean-Michel Basquiat