Sam Quotes

No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.

Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.

Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.

The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen.

I don't think there is any coach more sophisticated than me any more...

Today was about our lack of ability to not produce the ability we've got.

The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.

Joe Kennedy is one of the biggest crooks who ever lived.

120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.

When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.

I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, nothing.

It was only until I started to be myself that the music started to flow and people started to listen. So, thank you guys...

Guess it's true I'm not good at a one night stand , but I still need love cause I'm just a man

I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.

God created you for the first and greatest commandment, to be a lover of God.

I believe in destiny...what's going to be is going to be. If I'm going to win, I'm going to win...I don't give a damn what the other guy shoots. I'm going to win if it's my turn.

What abandoned course is that?

You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don't like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.

Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.

Sir, if you think that I am that kind of a man, you have missed your mark. I would rather die a thousand deaths than betray a friend or be false to duty.

I want to be rich in all the foods I’ve tasted and all the places I’ve been and all the people I’ve kissed.

Compassion begins with the acknowledgment of the single inescapable truth that is the foundation for the possibility of love between human beings - an awareness of the tragic sense of life.

When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.

I try to live right. I always try to adhere to what I think is right, and that, to me, is the most important part of creative work.

Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be. Don't become too predictable.

Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.

So many people counted on me to be the party, I had to move far enough away that they wouldn't want to drive there.

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or is a Gurkha.

Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person.

God is most glorified in us when our knowledge and experience of Him ignite a forest fire of joy that consumes all competing pleasures and He alone becomes the treasure that we prize.

You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.

Trust what moves you most deeply.

Readiness for opportunity makes for success. Opportunity often comes by accident; readiness never does.

The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside.

I want to be able to work a piece of wood into an object that contributes something beautiful and useful to everyday life.

I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor.

I made a film where nobody got shot and nobody went to see it.

Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.

Too often we worry about how the others react-but it's YOUR reaction that they monitor.

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

If I could just touch the hem of His garment I know I'll be made whole

What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.

Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.

Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a thelogically defensible reading of the Bible.

I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race.

Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.