William C. deMille famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

  • Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

  • A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

  • When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

  • Freedom is never given; it is won.

  • Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.

  • Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never actually doing anything different, then pretty quickly the feeling will wear off and you'll start searching for another book to fill the void.

  • Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.

  • Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.

  • lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.