Persion Quotes

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Being able to admit you’re wrong is a great thing.

I've always been a fan of the underdog.

We are part of this universe;

we are in this universe,

but perhaps more important than both of those facts,

is that the universe is in us.

You can be two sizes: You can be big,

or you can be small.

It’s very hard to be medium.

Life is brief, and then you die,

you know?

Most decisions should probably be

made with somewhere around 70% of the

information you wish you had.

I counted everything.

I counted the steps to the road,

the steps up to church,

the number of dishes and silverware I washed...

anything that could be counted,

I did.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball,

I can only marvel at the many black players

who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because

they had nowhere else to go.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters

cannot be trusted with important matters.

The longer I live,

the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.

Above anything else,

I hate to lose.

All the armies of Europe,

Asia and Africa combined,

with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted)

in their military chest;

with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force,

take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge,

in a trial of a thousand years.

To be good is noble;

but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

I never ran my train off the track,

and I never lost a passenger.

Nothing astonishes men

so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Make the most of yourself,

for that is all there is of you.

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin,

but, of course,

society demands something more than this.

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Politics is the art of the possible,

but sometimes the impossible can be achieved.