Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes

All I ever wanted really, and continue to want out of life, is to give 100 percent to whatever I'm doing and to be committed to whatever I'm doing and then let the results speak for themselves. Also to never take myself or people for granted and always be thankful and grateful to the people who helped me.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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LifeThankfulMyselfGratefulPeople

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

DoorWorldWillCleanEveryoneOwn

We keep on saying 'Jack' and 'he,' but that's one of the great things about the Ripper: its a mystery, which is part of the fascination and the fear. If you can see evil and face it, it often doesn't look so evil, but the Ripper never got caught.

Jerome Flynn

FearGreatEvilSayingFaceLook

Women get possessive and cranky if they try to cruise with the Tooz.

John Matuszak

WomenTryCruiseGetCranky

I know that the greatest of actresses has about 20 good years of acting in her and that she will go on living for 30 or 40 years as a human being. So, the conclusion I have come to is that I can't make acting my whole life.

Jean Seberg

LifeGoodActingGoKnowLiving

Fans always say they laughed and they cried while reading my books. And I tell them that I laughed and cried while writing them.

Simone Elkeles

WritingReadingSayAlwaysTell

If we are addressing the issue of weapons of mass destruction, we need to send a uniform, consistent message that there is zero tolerance to any country who is developing weapons of mass destruction, North Korea included.

Mohamed ElBaradei

ToleranceCountryUniformNeedZero

If the process of life is about moving toward increased complexity and organization, a sort of sublime unfolding of greater and greater self-organizing systems, then we're actually doing pretty well.

Jason Silva

LifeOrganizationMovingDoingWell

I don't know how a man can live with himself to get to the top knowing he didn't do it the right way.

Deontay Wilder

LiveManKnowWayKnowingTop

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Denis Waitley

ChildrenDecisionParentingListen

My simple point is that I judge a person's faith by how they live their life, not by the tenets of their religion. I've watched the holiest of people walk past somebody in need or treat their staff mean. To me, the beauty of faith is only seen when people live it consistently or struggle to do so.

Cory Booker

LifeBeautyLiveFaithWalkSimple

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

Clara Schumann

HappinessArtImaginationPicture

Music and literature have always and continue to be massive influences. Writers such as Seamus Heaney and Frank McGuinness. I have always admired the humanitarians that I knew growing up in Derry whose influence steered me in the direction of some of the work that I have chosen in the past.

Bronagh Gallagher

WorkMusicPastMeGrowing Up

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