Motivational Quotes

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.

We did not come to fear the future.

We came here to shape it.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops

under his command make him.

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.

Between two evils,

I always pick the one I never tried before.

Efficiency is doing things right;

effectiveness is doing the right things.

Happiness is secured through virtue;

it is a good attained by living well.

For the last 33 years,

I have looked in the mirror every morning and

asked myself: If today were the last day of my life,

would I want to do what I am about to do today?

Because I think every child star suffers through this period

because you're not the cute and charming child that you were.

You start to grow,

and they want to keep you little forever.

I think that slavery is wrong, morally,

socially and politically.

I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States,

and I should not object if it should gradually

terminate in the whole Union.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,

compassionate with the aged,

sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong.

Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

It is hard to fail,

but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.