Chartacter Quotes

Do the one thing you think you cannot do.

Fail at it.

Try again.

Do better the second time.

The only people who never tumble,

those who never mount the high wire,

This is your moment,

Own it.

Reality is merely an illusion,

albeit a very persistent one.

The greatest gift of life is friendship and I have received it

We all need people

who will give us feedback.

That’s how we improve.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government,

who assist in bearing its burdens.

Consequently,

I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage,

who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

If you keep your eye on the profit,

you’re going to skimp on the product.

If you don’t have a sense of humor,

you’re doomed.

English is necessary

as at present original works of science are in English.

I believe that in two decades times

original works of science will start coming out in our languages.

Then we can move over like the Japanese.

Keep raising your words,

not your voice.

It is rain that grows flowers,

not thunder.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

What I am looking for is not out there,

it is in me.

Never contract friendship

with a man that is not

better than thyself.

I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me.

Someone is sitting in the

shade today because someone

planted a tree a long time ago.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

My religion consists of a humble admiration

of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself

in the slight details we are able to perceive with

our frail and feeble mind.

Imagination without discipline is the mother of many useful errors.

If I’m not happy with myself,

how can I expect others to be happy with me?

Reading about nature is fine,

but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully,

he can learn more than what is in books,

for they speak with the voice of God.

The secret of life,

though,

is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.