Chartacter Quotes

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

A man watches his pear tree day after day,

impatient for the ripening of the fruit.

Let him attempt to force the process,

and he may spoil both fruit and tree.

But let him patiently wait,

and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

Success is a science

if you have the conditions,

you get the result.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

There is a blessed necessity by

which the interest of men is always driving them to the right;

and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Just as a snake sheds its skin,

we must shed our past over and over again.

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than

that it should point the way to a more

comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth

and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity

before it is entitled to the appellation.

Power concedes nothing without a demand.

Arbitrary power is most easily established

on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture.

Just get people to stop reading them.

I always say that the

times in my life

when I've been happiest

are the times when

I've seen, like, a sunset.

National honor is the national property of highest value.

I fear not the man

who has practiced 10,000 kicks once,

but I fear the man

who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

I don't believe you have to be

better than everybody else.

I believe you have to be better

than you ever thought you could be

Ken Venturi

Many of life's failures are people

who did not realize how close they were to success

when they gave up.

Maybe Christmas,

the Grinch thought,

doesn't come from a store.

In all my lectures,

I have taught one doctrine,

namely,

the infinitude of the private man.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

Love means never having to say you're a zero.