Success.life Quotes

I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land.

You,

who have it to see,

welcome it—and forget not those who have fallen during the night.

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true;

but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures,

and I have never spoken with

intentional disrespect of religion in general,

or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

We especially need imagination in the pursuit of knowledge.

You have to be passionate about what you do.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank

and file has already earned my contempt.

He has been given a large brain by mistake,

since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

I always try to stay grounded and know who I am.

Anything that won't sell,

I don't want to invent.

Its sale is proof of utility,

and utility is success.

Why are we,

as a nation so obsessed

with foreign things?

Is it a legacy of

our colonial years?

We want foreign television sets.

We want foreign shirts.

We want foreign technology.

Why this obsession with

everything imported?

My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana,

in my eighth year... It was a wild region,

with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods.

There I grew up... Of course when I came of age,

I did not know much.

Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher...

but that was all.

The advance of technology is based on

making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it.

Take risks,

push yourself,

and leave it all in the ring.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times,

always with the same person.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Focus on the process,

not the outcome.

Excellence comes from repetition.

What we seek we shall find;

what we flee from flees from us.

I love my family more than anything in the world.

Leave it as it is.

The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of

a palace has an animal nature,

rude and aboriginal as a white bear.