American Quotes

1,341 quotes in this collection

"Define your priorities, know your values and believe in your purpose. Only then can you effectively share yourself with others."

-- Les Brown

"Define your priorities, know your values and believe in your purpose. Only then can you effectively share yourself with others."

-- Les Brown

"Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time."

-- John C. Maxwell

"Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time."

-- John C. Maxwell

"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

-- Napoleon Hill

"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

-- Napoleon Hill

"Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important."

-- Stephen R. Covey

"Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important."

-- Stephen R. Covey

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."

-- Milton Berle

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."

-- Milton Berle

"I don't stop when I'm tired. I stop when I'm done."

-- David Goggins

"I don't stop when I'm tired. I stop when I'm done."

-- David Goggins

"Discipline equals freedom."

-- Jocko Willink

"Discipline equals freedom."

-- Jocko Willink

"Dream big, work hard, stay humble."

-- Brad Meltzer

"Dream big, work hard, stay humble."

-- Brad Meltzer

"The best revenge is massive success."

-- Frank Sinatra

"The best revenge is massive success."

-- Frank Sinatra

"I could either watch it happen or be a part of it."

-- Elon Musk

"I could either watch it happen or be a part of it."

-- Elon Musk

"I hate that word - 'lucky.' It cheapens a lot of hard work. Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in. So I won't say I'm lucky. I'm fortunate enough to find or attract very talented people."

-- Peter Dinklage

"I hate that word - 'lucky.' It cheapens a lot of hard work. Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in. So I won't say I'm lucky. I'm fortunate enough to find or attract very talented people."

-- Peter Dinklage

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first."

-- Jim Morrison

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first."

-- Jim Morrison

"There is no substitute for hard work."

-- Thomas A. Edison

"There is no substitute for hard work."

-- Thomas A. Edison

"Luck is the dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get."

-- Ray Kroc

"Luck is the dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get."

-- Ray Kroc

"There's no way I can single-handedly save the world, but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more effort."

-- Isaac Asimov

"There's no way I can single-handedly save the world, but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more effort."

-- Isaac Asimov

"In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life."

-- Kevin Smith

"In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life."

-- Kevin Smith

"Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference."

-- Nolan Bushnell

"Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference."

-- Nolan Bushnell

"If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you."

-- Muhammad Ali

"If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you."

-- Muhammad Ali

"I constantly get out of my comfort zone. Once you push yourself into something new, a whole new world of opportunities opens up. But you might get hurt. In fact you will get hurt. But amazingly when you heal - you are somewhere you've never been."

-- Terry Crews

"I constantly get out of my comfort zone. Once you push yourself into something new, a whole new world of opportunities opens up. But you might get hurt. In fact you will get hurt. But amazingly when you heal - you are somewhere you've never been."

-- Terry Crews

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

-- Henry Ford

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

-- Henry Ford

"You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day. You just use the future to escape the present."

-- John Green

"You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day. You just use the future to escape the present."

-- John Green

"Everybody says they're trying to get their piece of the pie. They don't realize that the world is a kitchen - you can make your own pie."

-- Terry Crews

"Everybody says they're trying to get their piece of the pie. They don't realize that the world is a kitchen - you can make your own pie."

-- Terry Crews

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."

-- Abraham Lincoln

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."

-- Abraham Lincoln

"If you want help, help yourself - people like to see that."

-- Chris Rock

"If you want help, help yourself - people like to see that."

-- Chris Rock