Five Word Motivational Quotes & Sayings

Look round, the wrecks of play behold; Estates dismember'd, mortgaged, sold! Their owners now to jails confin'd, Show equal poverty of mind. — John Gay

Far better die, she said. She took in her hand a casket which held herbs for killing, but as she sat there with it, she thought of life and the delightful things that are in the world; and the sun seemed sweeter than ever before. — Edith Hamilton

Often they [writers on the study of management] have a point of view based upon intuition and experience. They then offer a cadence of two-paragraph examples carefully selected to "prove" their theory, and then they write "one size fits all" books. The message is, "If you'd do what these companies did, you'd be successful too." — Clayton Christensen

One thing I've learned in caving is always to be two hundred percent sure. — Caroline Llewellyn

I became a playwright and screenwriter. Italian-Americans were my particular specialty. I liked the way they talked. There was something free in it. — John Patrick Shanley

Everyone starts out with nobody listening to them and nobody to listen to. How and who you add determines what Twitter will become for you. — Laura Fitton

Sex is not imaginary, but it is not quite real either. — Mason Cooley

In our community, we have a duty to strengthen the weakest among us to build a better society. — Bill Courtney

He couldn't stand being around her when she had...Theron.
He wasn't king anymore. He wasn't an orphan anymore. He wasn't in Meira's life anymore.
None of this was the freedom he thought he'd wanted. — Sara Raasch

I was forever under his spell and I never wanted to be without him, ever again. And if being with him, like this, turned out to be a mistake, it would be the best mistake I'd ever make. — C.J. English

It wasn't that I amassed it with aims of selling it and becoming a rich man. My personality demanded that I be surrounded by the best examples of the world's art. — Hermann Goring

Well, isn't every successful person in every family the bankbook? — Louie Anderson

The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it. — John Locke

If you're always worried about being on your phone, then you really are missing out on everything that's happening in front of you. — Vanessa Hudgens

This is a contradiction to all finite play. Because the purpose of a finite game is to bring play to an end with the victory of one of the players, each finite game is played to end itself. The contradiction is precisely that all finite play is play against itself. — James P. Carse