John C. Maxwell Quotes

Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

John C. Maxwell

Recitation: by Male by Female

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LiveMoneyControlSocietyDiet

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.

Maude Adams

SuccessFailurePettyAfraid

Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats and herb gardens and parking lots with cords hanging to plug in electric cars.

Maureen Dowd

EyesBlueEnoughLooksInnocent

Youth should be a savings bank.

Sophie Swetchine

YouthBankSavingsShould

How can you live the high life if you do not wear high heels? I don't understand why women wear these ballet pumps. They are only good if you walk like a ballet dancer, and only ballet dancers do that.

Sonia Rykiel

LifeGoodWomenLiveWalkYou

My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not.

Sonia Sotomayor

JusticeJobManGuiltyInnocent

People don't say 'Zounds!' anymore.

Sloan Wilson

PeopleSayAnymore

I never would have given up my work to stay home.

Shirley MacLaine

WorkHomeNeverUpStayWould

I wanted to be respected by filmmakers, and why should they respect me if they saw that my superiors did not treat me with respect.

Dawn Steel

RespectMeTreatWhySawDid

In Portland, there are so many trained artists and technicians, there's an enormous talent base. And it's not like second-stringers.

Dean Devlin

TalentPortlandArtistsLikeMany

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Plato

GreatYourselfVictoryConquerFirst

At Christmas, it's my siblings running around the house, we're cooking, talking, laughing, loud and just crazy. It's beautiful chaos.

Tika Sumpter

BeautifulCookingCrazyChaosHouse

I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.

Tim Ferriss

SuccessBookShortWeekendYears

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