Persion Quotes

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us

dreamers and indolent...

It is good to begin life poor;

it is good to begin life rich

these are wholesome;

but to begin it prospectively rich!

The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

My parents were both born in Virginia,

of undistinguished families

second families,

perhaps I should say.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him,

but because he loves what is behind him.

Even in our sleep,

pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until,

in our despair, against our will, comes wisdom.

This isn't a hobby;

it's a career.

I've always been a fan of the underdog.

In all my lectures,

I have taught one doctrine,

namely,

the infinitude of the private man.

When I’m good,

I’m very good.

But when I’m bad,

I’m better.

Gratitude is the inward

feeling of kindness received.

Thankfulness is the natural

impulse to express that feeling.

Thanksgiving is the

following of that impulse.

Success depends upon previous

preparation, and without

such preparation there is

sure to be failure.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

One way to remember

who you are is to remember who your heroes are.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Noise proves nothing.

Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as

if she laid an asteroid.

I don't give out participation trophies.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

I was so ugly my mother used to feed me

with a sling shot.

Rule No. 1: Never lose money.

Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No. 1

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

There will one day spring from the brain of science

a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities,

so absolutely terrifying, that even man,

the fighter,

who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death,

will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.