Friend Quotes

Man needs his difficulties because

they are necessary to enjoy success.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man

without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless,

and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

The civilized man has built a coach,

but has lost the use of his feet.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

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.

My mother was my first country,

the first place I ever lived.

You must take the compromise to win,

or else nothing.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Optimism is often dismissed as false hope,

but it drives innovation.

If you’re going to be thinking,

you might as well think big.

Politics is not about being right or left,

it’s about doing what is right.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen.

Make it happen. Make your own future.

Make your own hope. Make your own love.

And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator,

not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high,

but by doing what you can to make grace happen...

yourself, right now, right down here on Earth

Bradley Whitford

The common question that gets asked in business is,

Why?

That’s a good question,

but an equally valid question is,

Why not?

I don't think you ever stop giving,

I really don't,

I think it's an on,

going process,

And it's not just about,

being able to write a check,

It's being able to touch somebody's life.

I try to basically keep my opinions to myself

when it comes to people who are charged with crimes

that I don't know anything about.

We are what we pretend to be,

so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man

for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of,

and scoffer at, religion.

Be beautiful

Be stylish

And love yourself

Day 2 is stasis.

Followed by irrelevance.

Followed by excruciating,

painful decline.

Followed by death.

And that is why it is always Day 1.

Stay focused,

and don’t let pressure get to you.