Destony Quotes

I’ve always been a bit of a loner.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Your margin is my opportunity.

Courage is resistance to fear,

mastery of fear,

not absence of fear.

If we did all the things we are capable of,

we would literally astound ourselves.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for

honesty and truth and compassion

against injustice and lying and greed.

I spent my whole life learning how to live,

and I still don’t know.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed

everything save our modes of thinking and

we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Clothes make the man.

Naked people have little or no influence on society.

I very rarely think in words at all.

A thought comes,

and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

I dissent.

A little more persistence,

a little more effort,

and what seemed hopeless

failure may turn to

glorious success.

Character, in the long run,

is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

The future is a function of the present,

not a prediction of the past.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

I had practiced with the team,

and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri.

They made it quite clear to the Army that

they would not play a team with a black player on it.

Instead of telling me the truth,

the Army gave me leave to go home.

Familiarity breeds contempt and children.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies,

but not the madness of people.

To educate a man in mind and

not in morals is to educate a menace to society.