Motivation Quotes

Big jobs usually go to the men

who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

No change of circumstances

can repair a defect of character.

My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.

Better hang out with people better than you.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one

has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Laugh,

and the world laughs with you;

weep,

and you weep alone.

Love your neighbor as yourself.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself

and you are the easiest person to fool.

Perfection is not attainable,

but if we chase perfection,

we can catch excellence.

Your margin is my opportunity.

As a child of God,

I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task

remaining before us, that from these honored dead

we take increased devotion to that cause for

which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

I felt most proud on the success of the Apollo mission.

Old age is like everything else.

To make a success of it,

you've got to start young.

Every particular in nature,

a leaf,

a drop,

a crystal,

a moment of time is related to the whole,

and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913.

I was allowed to read.

My mother, who was a teacher,

taught me when I was a very young child.

The first school I attended was a small building

that went from first to sixth grade.

There was one teacher for all of the students.

There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages.

You don’t have to be smarter than the rest.

You have to be more disciplined.

Character,

not circumstances,

makes the man.

The voice of the people is the voice of God.