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The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
Michael Jordan
Peace
,
Wife
,
Loyalty
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
Audrey Hepburn
Home
,
Sadness
,
Father
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Joan Lunden
Life
,
Anger
,
Hurt
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Leonardo da Vinci
Long
,
Happen
,
Attention
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Satchel Paige
Might
,
Gaining
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Experience
,
Mind
,
Old
I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.
Mitch Hedberg
Work
,
Good
,
Lost
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung
Gratitude
,
Human
,
Feelings
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond
Life
,
Love
,
Done
Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Time
,
Car
,
Possible
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost
Rain
,
Place
,
Weather
It's not bragging if you can back it up.
Muhammad Ali
Bragging
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby
Home
,
Children
,
Human
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Leo Buscaglia
God
,
Talent
,
Gift
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving
Love
,
Heart
,
Lost
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Life
,
Reason
,
Whatever
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
Anais Nin
Life
,
Love
,
Dreams
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Max Lucado
Turn
,
Wants
,
Lead
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
John F. Kennedy
Work
,
Men
,
Put
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
Barbara de Angelis
Lose
,
Loving
,
Holding
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
Khalil Gibran
Life
,
Live
,
Able
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Norman Vincent Peale
Anyone
,
Empty
,
Hearts
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
Arthur Rubinstein
Life
,
Love
,
Found
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Tony Robbins
Life
,
Give
,
Gift
When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.
Steve Jobs
Beautiful
,
Making
,
Though
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Toni Morrison
Good
,
Mind
,
Woman
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
Washington Irving
Love
,
Mother
,
Father
Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Long
,
Him
,
Turn
You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.
Hunter S. Thompson
Person
,
Turn
,
Eye
If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.
Eminem
Music
,
Long
,
Down
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