Compulsions Quotes

I care not what others think of what I do,

but I care very much about what I think of what I do!

That is character!

If the freedom of speech is taken

away then dumb and silent we may be led,

like sheep to the slaughter.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

Timing beats speed,

precision beats power.

I do not believe in the God of theology

who rewards good and punishes evil.

No act of kindness,

no matter how small,

is ever wasted.

Dream and strive,

for nothing great is achieved without vision and effort.

The only thing worse than being blind is

having sight but no vision.

Love is the attempt to

form a friendship

inspired by beauty.

You’re only given a little spark of madness.

You mustn’t lose it.

Nothing is impossible,

the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!

True teaching cannot be learned from textbooks

any more than a sunbeam can be learned from a physics book.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go,

what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother

and to marry Rachel?

The solution to my problem was only days away

in the hands of a tough, shrewd,

courageous man called Branch Rickey,

the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas.

I've only ever had one.

There is only one corner of the universe

you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops

under his command make him.

Character is always known.

Thefts never enrich;

alms never impoverish;

murder will speak out of stone walls.

I’m not a person who likes to be judged.

Keep love in your heart.

A life without it is like a sunless garden.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living,

it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope,

and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.