Persion Quotes

A man should look for what is,

and not for what he thinks should be.

If you want to succeed

you should strike out on new paths,

rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success

Perseverance is not a long race;

it is many short races one after the other

Walter Elliot

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on

our own ‘to do’ list.

Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it

and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief

that it is in course of ultimate extinction,

or its advocates will push it forward,

till it shall become alike lawful in all the States old as well as new

North as well as South.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do.

The hard part is doing it.

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Children must be taught how to think,

not what to think.

That deep emotional conviction of

the presence of a superior reasoning power,

which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe,

forms my idea of God.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die

You may think it was a very little thing,

and in these days it seems to me like a trifle,

but it was a most important incident in my life.

I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy,

had earned a dollar in less than a day;

that by honest work, I had earned a dollar.

I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

Research is creating new knowledge.

It does not matter how you came into the world,

what matters is that you are here.

If the stars should appear but one

night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men;

true nobility is being superior to your former self.

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls

while they are still rolling.

No matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe,

it is both possible and, more importantly,

it becomes powerful to come together in

common purpose and common effort.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Men do not shape destiny,

destiny produces the man for the hour.