The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Jonathan Swift

I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.
Tiger Woods

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
John C. Maxwell

He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
Stephen Leacock

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Karl Marx

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Donald Trump

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
George S. Patton

Get off your butt and join the Marines!
John Wayne

Get off your horse and drink your milk.
John Wayne

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
Leo Tolstoy

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Earl Nightingale

The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he's really pissed off.
Bob Hope

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
Bob Hope

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
Bob Hope

Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
Lance Armstrong

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
Lance Armstrong

But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
James Dean

Good looking people turn me off. Myself included.
Patrick Swayze