Top 100 Gordon Quotes
#1. Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.
Gordon W. Allport
#3. The doubling of oil prices ... is creating a more difficult environment in which to act.
Gordon Brown
#4. The best legacy you could leave is not some building that is names after you or a piece of jewelry but rather a world that has been impacted and touched by your presence, your joy, and your positive actions.
Jon Gordon
#8. If you can't play the blues ... you might as well hang it up.
Dexter Gordon
#9. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
George Gordon Byron
#10. I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
Gale Gordon
#11. I don't run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.
Gordon Ramsay
#13. That save from Pele's header was the best I ever made. I didn't have any idea how famous it would become - to start with, I didn't even realise I'd made it at all.
Gordon Banks
#14. He that willeth to do shall know what he ought to do. He that doeth the thing he does know will know more. And that more done will open the door yet wider into all the fragrance of a strongly obedient life, and into a clear and clearing understanding of the Lord Jesus Himself.
S.D. Gordon
#15. Everything that turned out well for me seems like a fluke. I feel like, at any moment, I could lose everything and be working at Dunkin' Donuts.
Mary Gordon
#16. For all the prizes, recitals and honours that grace Gordon Walker's glittering career, he still likes nothing more than coming home back to play. "I do like my Burns Suppers in Ayrshire. I've piped in the haggis, addressed it and then piped it back out again.
Fergus Muirhead
#17. Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.
S.D. Gordon
#18. Behind all the falling rain, the sun still hangs in the sky. And if the sun can hang in there through the rain, surely you can, too.
Elsie Hillman-Gordon
#19. When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines himself, not because of the demands of the church, but because of the knowledge within his heart
Gordon B. Hinckley
#20. People think I'm selling feminism in my books, but what I'm really doing is writing advertising copy for expensive private colleges that most women can't afford anyway. Oh, and try to find a job with a major in English literature. No luck? Joke's on you, sucker!
Mary Gordon
#21. Once upon
a dream
in a blanket
of night sky
you asked me
to tell you a story
which began with
us holding hands.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#22. it's not your goals that will lead to your success but your commitment to the process,
Jon Gordon
#23. I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to mean a movie that was financed outside corporate Hollywood, but a lot of what gets called independent these days is totally produced within that system. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#24. Do the best you can. But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#25. A camel is a horse designed by a committee and a committee's a sweet running piece of machinery compared to any government.
Gordon R. Dickson
#26. Please maintain an open mind while exploring the depth and wealth of wisdom that is available through the practice of yoga. You may soon come to see the Union of all religions and philosophies if you maintain an open mind and heart.
Dashama Konah Gordon
#27. No one dared do it before, not in front of the King (opening sentence)
Gordon Thomas
#28. Gratitude is a sign of maturity ... Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#29. It's difficult to have everybody like everything you do. I don't know anybody that's perfect and doesn't have a zit somewhere.
Gordon Bethune
#30. To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
Suzanne Gordon
#31. Truly Christian conduct is not predicated on whether I have the right to do something, but whether my conduct is helpful to those about me.
Gordon D. Fee
#32. There is far too much of divorce, wherein hearts are broken, and sometimes lives are destroyed.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#33. Monuments make momentous men immortal, but more memorable are mortal men making mere moments monumental.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#34. And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I'm just ready to start.
Gordon Parks
#36. When things are difficult, you have to be sure of who you are and what you want to achieve.
Gordon Brown
#37. College graduates work in every sector of the American economy, and the research engines incubated within our universities generate a wealth of ideas and innovations that have an enormous impact on our lives.
Gordon Gee
#38. The brain seems to be made up of a bewildering complexity of parts, and the cells within the parts seem to be characterized by an inscrutable complexity of form, extent, and relationships with each other.
Gordon Shepherd
#40. Years, and nobody knows why. It may be that Robert Gordon and the techno-pessimists are
Brink Lindsey
#41. The romance of solitude and small places, the blurring of identity.
Spencer Gordon
#43. It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year.
Theodore Gordon
#44. It's incredible how much stamina you can find when you're fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination.
Alexander Gordon Smith
#46. I'm kind of a sloppy feminist. Any ideology makes me a little nervous because there's some point where it doesn't allow for the complexity of things.
Kim Gordon
#47. History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.
Gordon S. Wood
#48. I'm not a rock star, I'm a rock bright-light.
Jay Gordon
#49. There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.
Gordon Ramsay
#50. Strong-willed, intelligent, sharp-tongued, doesn't suffer fools gladly ... remind you of anyone?"
"Yes. Gordon."
"Interesting," said the man. "Because those are the exact same words he used to describe you.
Derek Landy
#51. I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.
Mary Gordon
#52. They should never have put me with that woman ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.
Gordon Brown
#53. The hordes of demonic activity at times can take advantage of those who are wounded by others in the body of Christ. When we allow any hurt we can be used of the enemy to sow discord into God's work and His body.
Greg Gordon
#54. So often the difference between success and failure is belief. Belief leads to action and execution.
Jon Gordon
#55. I cook, I create, I'm incredibly excited by what I do, I've still got a lot to achieve.
Gordon Ramsay
#57. I did have an occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, they were of different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to west over Europe.
Gordon Cooper
#58. Let our voices be heard. I hope they will not be shrill voices, but, I hope we shall speak with such conviction that those to whom we speak shall know of the strength of our feeling and the sincerity of our efforts.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#59. Are you full of the Holy Spirit? Then you will be full of mercy, kindness and love.
Greg Gordon
#60. The Wookiee gambit.' he said with a smile. I didn't have a clue what he was talking about, but somewhere in my head a distant memory was forming. He raised an eyebrow. 'Christ, Alex, what have they done to your brain? You don't remember Star Wars?
Alexander Gordon Smith
#61. Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.
Gordon Parks
#62. And mine's a bubble not blown up for praise, But just to play with, as an infant plays.
George Gordon Byron
#63. Each of us has to face the matter - either the Church is true, or it is a fraud. There is no middle ground. It is the Church and kingdom of God, or it is nothing.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#64. If you know which way the current is going, you can use it to your advantage.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#65. I believe that the future is determined by the great public universities. They educate 80 percent of the students and make the American Dream available.
Gordon Gee
#67. I've never been good with structure - doing assignments for the sake of them or doing things I'm supposed to do.
Kim Gordon
#68. I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.
Gordon Getty
#69. For most, reconciliation will not happen as a part of a normal course of events. It has to be intentional.
Wayne Gordon
#70. great mysteries that the Poles have been able to keep their language, culture and religion alive despite inhabiting an area which has usually belonged to either Germany, Russia or Austria, or sometimes to all three.
Gordon Corrigan
#72. It's the person who likes to pat dogs to whom dogs come for pats.
Arthur Gordon
#73. I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.
Gordon Parks
#74. Our approach is to reject the old vicious circle of the '80s-rising debt, higher long-term interest rates, higher debt repayment costs, lower growth, higher unemployment, then enforced cuts in public spending. That was the old boom and bust.
Gordon Brown
#75. Somethin' like four thousand bottles have been thrown at me in my day but only about twenty ever hit me. That does not speak very well for the accuracy of the fans' throwing.
Harry Gordon Johnson
#76. The motto of the old order in the City of London was, 'My word is my bond,' but the financial crisis revealed a culture quite alien to that heritage. The stewards of people's money were revealed to have been speculators with it.
Gordon Brown
#77. Do you mind if I'm naked?"
"I hardly expected you in full evening dress.
Gordon Merrick
#79. I think that's a bit unfair. I'm a father with a 2-year-old child and I feel pretty young, actually.
Gordon Brown
#80. I've been on swims where people have freaked out about sharks. You have to think about something else, otherwise it will absolutely paralyze you. I do math problems, anything.
Lewis Gordon Pugh
#81. Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other experience.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#82. I have been fascinated by men and women of courage. People who took brave decisions in the service of great causes especially when more comfortable and far less dangerous alternatives were open to them
Gordon Brown
#83. For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word of the Lord and that of His prophets.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#84. I would never have ever dreamed that I would get married again and then all of a sudden you meet somebody. That's the thing about life. It can be so unexpected.
Gordon Lightfoot
#85. I love dancing; I adore salsa dancing and wish I could be in a Broadway chorus.
Mary Gordon
#86. I think fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers - we should look at what young people are saying to us.
Gordon Brown
#87. Most everything influences my work. Working in a used bookstore. Going for walks in the woods and peering at mushrooms. Writing reviews. Coming from frumpy, grumpy, faded-at-the-knees Winnipeg.
Ariel Gordon
#88. Go forward in life with a smile on your face, a sparkle in your eyes, and with great and strong purpose in your heart. The best things in life are the people in your life, the moments we live, and memories we made along the way.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#89. I tend to always carry a camera with me. I live next to a fire station, and I've got lots of photos of the hook and ladder coming out of the house. And I like food, so I tend to photograph wonderfully presented food all the time. To me those are very pleasant memories.
Gordon Bell
#90. There are values far beyond those of contracts, markets and exchange
Gordon Brown
#91. The only way you can bring peace to yourself is by bringing peace to others.
Aquanetta Gordon
#92. Maybe it was possible to relinquish control. He could do this, with Bengt he could. Give himself up and fly. He closed his eyes, let himself be pulled in by the touch. Bengt's arms. Bengt's hands on his thighs, arms, chest. Lips and tongue on neck and shoulders, the need for more. 'Don't stop.
G.B. Gordon
#93. Your job as CEO is to be the fastest person of the company.
Bing Gordon
#94. To understand what a person is, it is necessary always to refer to what he may be in the future, for every state of the person is pointed in the direction of future possibilities.
Gordon W. Allport
#96. Who was the best pilot I ever saw? You're lookin' at 'im.
Gordon Cooper
#97. I wasn't thinking about my pension plan until about two years ago. When I was in my twenties, the idea that you'd be thinking of taking a job based on its health-care policy was completely foreign. But these days young people are thinking about these things.
Mary Gordon
#98. My colleague Bill Keegan has written a very short book ('Saving the World?') on an unlikely topic - he is the first economist to try to rehabilitate Gordon Brown.
Simon Hoggart
#99. Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality, And dreams in their development have breath, And tears and tortures, and the touch of joy.
George Gordon Byron
#100. Klamath was all about fishing and socializing and cooking and eating, and waking up the next day to start over again.
Kim Gordon
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