Quotes
Quotes about Age
I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.
If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.
Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical recordâKrakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the agesâyou have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the figure of a lamb the feats of a lion. He hath indeed bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how.
To show the world what long experience gains, Requires not courage, though it calls for pains; But at life's outset to inform mankind Is a bold effort of a valiant mind.
What man would be wise, let him drink of the river That bears on his bosom the record of time; A message to him every wave can deliver To teach him to creep till he knows how to climb.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did.
All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's. A few gifted individuals manage to do both.
All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.
A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure. â¢Mrs. Charles E. Cowman To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment. â¢James Allen All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. â¢Jean-Paul Sartre No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward. â¢Amar Gopal Bose He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. â¢Joseph Heller Failure is the tuition you pay for success. â¢Walter Brunell Success is never final, but failure can be. â¢Bill Parcells Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. â¢George Washington Carver I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time. â¢Michael Jordan Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. â¢Confucius The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns. â¢Francis Picabia You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. â¢Walt Disney Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. â¢Rosalind Russell My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. â¢Abraham Lincoln Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts. â¢George R. Tilton I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. â¢George S. Patton There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. â¢Barbara Ward Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet. â¢German Proverb A man may fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. â¢J. Paul Getty Failure is not fatal; victory is not success. â¢Tony Richardson Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. â¢Louis Boone Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. â¢Jim Rohn There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. â¢Laurence J. Peter If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. â¢Robert H. Schuller Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. â¢Truman Capote There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. â¢Sri Swami Sivananda Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. â¢Joe Paterno Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits. â¢Robert Louis Stevenson Failures are like skinned kneesâ painful, but superficial. â¢H. Ross Perot I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failureâ which is try to please everybody. â¢Herbert B. Swope Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. â¢Zig Ziglar A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride.
"Take courage, soul! Hold not thy strength in vain! With faith o'ercome the steeps Thy God hath set for thee. Beyond the Alpine summits of great pain Lieth thine Italy."
Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle [Ger., Die Botschaft hor' ich wohl, allein mir fehlt der Glaube; Das Wunder ist des Glaubens liebstes Kind.]
Faith is reason grown courageous.
He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive.
Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.
In my soul rages a battle without victor. Between faith without proof and reason without charm.
Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know love's tragedies.
Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
Read but o'er the Stories Of men most fam'd for courage or for counsaile And you shall find that the desire of glory Was the last frailty wise men put of; Be they presidents.
What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own?
