Motivation Quotes

Better to illuminate than merely to shine.

Life is brief, and then you die,

you know?

Well,

you don't get to do things that other children get to do,

having friends and slumber parties and buddies.

There were none of that for me.

I didn't have friends when I was little.

My brothers were my friends.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought

forth on this continent, a new nation,

conceived in Liberty,

and dedicated to the proposition that

all men are created equal.

During my life,

I have had a few nightmares which happened to me

while I was wide awake.

One of them was

the National Republican Convention in San Francisco,

which produced the greatest disaster

the Republican Party has ever known

Nominee Barry Goldwater.

Far better is it to dare mighty things,

to win glorious triumphs,

even though checkered by failure...

than to rank with those poor spirits

who neither enjoy nor suffer much,

because they live in a gray twilight

that knows not victory nor defeat.

Dead people receive more flowers than

the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.

Change will not come

if we wait for some other person or some other time.

Age wrinkles the body.

Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Teamwork is the key to any success.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.

What gets measured gets managed.

Beware the man of a single book.

The heavens and the earth,

the sun and the moon,

the stars and the planets,

all are in us.

Everyone who knows me will know the truth,

which is that my children come first in my life

and that I would never harm any child.

Biographies,

as generally written,

are not only misleading but false...

In most instances,

they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

I had no future with the Dodgers,

because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey.

After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley,

you couldn't even mention Mr.

Rickey's name in front of him.

I considered Mr. Rickey

the greatest human being I had ever known.

To educate a man in mind and

not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

We do not yet possess ourselves,

and we know at the same time that we are much more.

What a wonderful thought it is

that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.