सुप्रभात! Quotes

If Singapore is a nanny state,

then I am proud to have fostered one.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Stop chasing the money

and start

Chasing the passion.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

What you do makes a difference,

and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of

his aren't very new at all.

You find your voice when you’re willing to take risks.

Reality is the best teacher.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door

directly to what should be.

My great concern is not whether you have failed,

but whether you are content with your failure.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to

prepare a good impromptu speech.

That all men are equal is a proposition which,

at ordinary times,

no sane individual has ever given his assent.

We are what we pretend to be,

so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

It's when children are 15,

16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor,

an engineer,

a politician or go to the Mars or moon.

That is the time they start having a dream,

and that's the time you can work on them.

You can help them shape their dreams.

Baseball is like a poker game.

Nobody wants to quit when he's losing;

nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

If at first you don’t succeed,

try,

try again.

Then quit.

No use being a damn fool about it.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

We, of this Congress and this administration,

will be remembered in spite of ourselves.

No personal significance, or insignificance,

can spare one or another of us.

The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down

in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

Films are not written,

they’re realized through collaboration and imagination.

The sun will shine regardless of the clouds.