Motivational Celebrity Quotes & Sayings

But what I do I do because I like to do. — Anthony Burgess

I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter? — Kazuo Ishiguro

The celebrity world can be so ugly. Everyone seems to have slept with everyone else and it's some sort of strange weird cycle. I don't want to get into that. — Eva Mendes

When I was young, I loved shopping at a store on Rodeo Drive called Lina Lee. Shopping there made me feel so special. — Kris Jenner

Just because someone is different doesn't mean they aren't worthy of others' respect. — Kathryn Perez

If I created a new depravity I would be a priestess, while my imitators would founder, after my reign, in abominable filth ... Don't you think that proud men, copying Satan, are more guilty than the Satan of the Bible, who invented pride? Is Satan not respectable because of his unprecedented and divinely inspired sin? — Rachilde

Your soul has a resiliency and a capacity to endure suffering that is beyond anything you can imagine. — Bryant McGill

I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959. — John Forbes Nash Jr.

Often a Christian man or woman falls prey to that cruel and vexatious spirit, wondering how to find marriage, who, when, where? It is on God that we should wait, as a waiter waits
not for but on the customer
alert, watchful, attentive, with no agenda of his own, ready to do whatever is wanted. 'My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.' (Ps. 62:5 KJV) In Him alone lie our security, our confidence, our trust. A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace. — Elisabeth Elliot

I don't like celebrity quarterbacks. We don't need those. We need battlefield commanders. — Bill Parcells

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task. — Mahatma Gandhi

The Folk love nothing more than mortal beauty. — Cassandra Clare

I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words constitute an argument. — Christopher Hitchens

Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel. — Samantha Shannon

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don't care to know any more. — Michel Houellebecq

There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will not doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive. Do you intend to fight back at fate, Valentine? That's what I came here to ask you.
-Maximilien Morrel — Alexandre Dumas