Denis Quotes

Commitment is that turning point in your life when you seize the moment to alter your destiny.

Don't let negative people determine your self-worth.

Nobody can make more fun of me than I already make of myself.

I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh.

Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter.

I've eaten things that didn't complain this much.

A good life is a collection of happy memories.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day.

If you’re in a hole, stop digging.

Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.

We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.

We can’t always tell the whole story about ourselves.

We in Purgatory sing fondly of Hell.

The greatest achievements are those that benefit others.

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or strengthen our lives.

The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.

If there is a distinctive Irish experience, it is one of division, exacerbated by the fact that division in a country so small seems perverse. But the scale doesn't matter.

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

The most important key to the permanent enhancement of self esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk.

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

Successful people believe in the validity of their own dreams and goals, even if dreams are all they have to go on.

The ability to adapt is everything!

Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.

La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.

Opportunity never knocks; it is within you.

Identify with excellence, put your name on your work, and both your work and name will stand the test of time.

The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre

Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty.

I am wholly yours - you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

A dream is a vision, a goal is a promise. You can keep your promises to yourself by remaining flexible, focused, and committed.

Mrs Thatcher tells us she has given the French President a piece of her mind... not a gift I would receive with alacrity.

Unless what you say benefits the other person, don't say it.

There never was a winner, who wasn't a beginner.

Don't assume that money, shelter and creature comforts are enough to demonstrate your love. Nothing can replace your presence, your hug, your smile, your touch - you!

I needed someone really intense, but also somebody with a lot of theatrical credibility.

But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.

Come through for others and they will come through for you.

Real success comes in small portions day by day.

Opportunities are problems in search of solutions.

The world needs role models, instead of critics.

History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.

The most important conversations, briefings, meeting, and lectures you will ever have will be those you hold with yourself in the privacy of your own mind.