Identity Quotes

I would never allow anyone to give me money,

no difference how badly I needed it,

I wanted literally to earn my living.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

For somehow this is tyranny’s disease: to trust no friends.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour.

Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

Every day is a chance to rewrite your story.

When I look into the future,

it's so bright it burns my eyes.

There are other measures of self

respect for a man,

than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,

but in rising every time we fall.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon.

We are never tired,

so long as we can see far enough.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

I have never taken any exercise,

except sleeping and resting,

and I never intend to take any.

The point is that you can’t be too greedy.

When you arise in the morning

think of what a precious

privilege it is to be alive

to breathe, to think,

to enjoy, to love.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause

with his whole strength and soul can be a true master.

For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

If you double the number of experiments you do per year

you’re going to double your inventiveness.

I haven’t slept for ten days,

because that would be too long.

It's a complete lie,

why do people buy these papers?

It's not the truth I'm here to say.

You know, don't judge a person,

do not pass judgement,

unless you have talked to them one on one.

I don't care what the story is,

do not judge them because it is a lie.

Be kind whenever possible.

It is always possible

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men;

true nobility is being superior to your former self.