Motivational Quotes

If you could kick the person in the pants

responsible for most of your trouble,

you wouldn't sit for a month.

What is a weed?

A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

I came from a real tough neighborhood.

I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.

Where there's hope,

there's life.

It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.

Don’t wait for good things to happen to you.

Duty,

honor,

country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate

what you ought to be,

what you can be,

what you will be.

I always want to get better and never be satisfied.

You only live once,

but if you do it right,

once is enough.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

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.