Destony Quotes

Confidence comes from embracing who you are,

flaws and all.

Gold is good in its place;

but loving,

brave,

patriotic men are better than gold.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Why are we,

as a nation so obsessed with foreign things?

Is it a legacy of our colonial years?

We want foreign television sets.

We want foreign shirts.

We want foreign technology.

Why this obsession with everything imported?

If it is certain that whatever

we give will come back to us,

then why not give only blessings

If it's your job to eat a frog,

it's best to do it first thing in the morning.

And If it's your job to eat two frogs,

it's best to eat the biggest one first.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non

educated family,

yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man

who is able to think things out for himself.

I’ve always been a bit of a fighter.

Some single mind must be master,

else there will be no agreement in anything.

He who does not know how to look back at

where he came from will never get to his destination.

God has given us two hands,

one to receive with and the other to give with.

The government solution to a problem is

usually as bad as the problem.

Invention is not disruptive.

Only customer adoption is disruptive.

Everything in life is luck.

People with great gifts are easy to find,

but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,

but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

If men were angels,

no government would be necessary.

Veni, vidi, vici.

(I came, I saw, I conquered.)

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

Whether it be true or not,

I can say, for one, that I have no other

so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow

men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

How far I shall succeed in gratifying

this ambition is yet to be developed.