Winning Quotes to Inspire You to Achieve Your Goals - page 84
Akrasia" [weakness of will] in rational beings is as common as wine in France.
John Searle
Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.
Van Jones
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
I would just like my children to be able to eat fish when they grow up. Now, I don't think there's anything controversial about that.
James Murdoch
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
George S. Patton
State companies winning deals because of government-to- government interaction has become a rule rather than an exception. This will increase competition for multinational companies in acquiring oil and gas assets.
Arjuna Mahendran
God made only water, but man made wine.
People may think that because I have illustrated and written all these books it must be easy for me, but it's not really easy for me. The drawing part is easy - I love doing it. But continuing to move forward is hard.
Jan Brett
I've always said that growing up in postwar Japan, I never felt any connection to my work through those experiences. The work I do really comes from inside myself. For me, being born in Japan was an accident.
Rei Kawakubo
We must win the war on poverty by enlisting the greatest weapon ever invented - free enterprise
Jack Kemp
There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.
Herbert Newton Casson
Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings? Ah, who is this lady fine? The Vine, boys, the Vine! The mother of the mighty Wine, A roamer is she O'er wall and tree And sometimes very good company.
Bryan Procter
Acquiring an aggressive, honest, and communicative agent with actual relationships in real-live New York publishing houses is, in my opinion, the single most important move that a writer who aspires to be successful can make.
John Lescroart
We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.
Money equals the ability to be mobile in this word, to travel, to live in a place that is suitable, to not be brought down or drained, to not to be a victim.
One reason citizens, politicians and university donors sometimes lack confidence in the social sciences is that social scientists too often miss the chance to declare victory and move on to new frontiers.
Nicholas A. Christakis
