Nothing Quotes

I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing.

Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.

In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.

Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.

I'm nothing more than a sports slave.

I've always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I would be good at, because I'm a very physical person. I've always played sports and stuff. Drums would give me something to do.

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else.

I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.

In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.

Trade creates jobs and lifts people out of poverty. And when that happens, societies stabilize and grow. And there is nothing like a stable society to fight terrorism and strengthen democracy, freedom and rule of law.

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.