Up Quotes

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass"; "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys".

Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up that's all.

You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!

I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.

I never viewed money as being 'my money' I always saw it as 'the money.' It's a resource. If it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system.

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.

Take free money. No matter how in debt you are, if your employer offers a matching contribution on a 401(k) or other retirement vehicle, you must sign up and contribute enough to get the maximum company match each year. Think of it as a bonus.

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

I'm totally growing up.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.

I never kept up with the fashions. I believed in wearing what I thought looked good on me.