Chartacter Quotes

In giving freedom to the slave,

we assure freedom to the free

honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve.

We shall nobly save,

or meanly lose,

the last best hope of earth.

Waste is worse than loss.

The time is coming,

when every person who lays claim to ability,

will keep the question of waste before him constantly,

The scope of thrift is limitless.

It was the best of times,

it was the worst of times.

If you think your teacher is tough,

wait until you get a boss.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education

and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry

shall become much more general than at present,

and should be gratified to have it in my power

to contribute something to the advancement of

any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate

the happy period.

Baseball is 90% mental,

the other half is physical.

I’m the one that’s going to be embarrassed.

Optimism is often dismissed as false hope,

but it drives innovation.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

To be good is noble;

but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

I had to spend my life persuading my people

that what I was doing was the right thing.

Christmas is joy,

religious joy,

an inner joy of

light and peace.

The forgotten men and women of our country

will be forgotten no longer.

Biographies,

as generally written,

are not only misleading but false...

In most instances,

they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

The more you know,

the more you can enjoy what’s happening.

Art is the way I process the world around me.

The way I see it,

if you want the rainbow,

you gotta put up with the rain.

Business is a money game with

few rules and a lot of risk.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it,

move with it, and join the dance.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.