Quotes about "Inspiration & Motivation"

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. ”

Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A's in school. ”

Three of my childhood dreams went unfulfilled. I never saw a no-hitter, never saw a triple play, and never caught a ball that had been hit into the stands. But I did see the Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in a World Series game when I was 10. ”

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. ”

People's imaginations are sort of there for the taking, I guess. If you tell the story right, you're going to hook them. ”

Despair gives courage to a coward. ”

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all. ”

The more wit the less courage. ”

Learning isn't meant to be confined to a box, and students virtually never 'master' a topic simply by taking a class. ”

As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it. ”