Motivational Quotes

A great civilization is not conquered from without until

it has destroyed itself from within.

The future never just happens.

It is created.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

The highest compliment that you can pay me

is to say that I work hard every day.

Skate to where the puck is going,

not where it has been.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

Journalism is what we need to inform and guide democracy.

Whatever the cost of our libraries,

the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

Objective journalism is the first rough draft of history.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

Re examine all you have been told.

Dismiss what insults your soul.

Be curious,

not judgmental.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine

and shadows will fall behind you.

Do I contradict myself?

Very well,

then I contradict myself,

I am large,

I contain multitudes.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster

when we have lost our way.

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself

a refuge from almost all miseries of life.

There are three rules for writing:

1) Avoid clichés,

2) Avoid clichés,

3) Avoid clichés.

The problem of the twentieth century is

the problem of the color line.