Quotes
Quotes about Life
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base.
Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Statement after losing his first fight to Ken Norton, March 31, 1973: I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
When we have adversity we oftentimes tend to look around and think that we're the Lone Ranger. We tend to believe that we're the only one who has problems. And we always look around and see others who are more talented, taller, smarter, handsomer, or faster. I can assure you, everyone has problemsâeven football coaches. The ability we have to handle this adversity will determine the degree of success that we will have in life.
I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, 'Oh, well, there's another Saturday.' The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.
In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.
Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health have flown.
Life demands from you only the strength you posses. One feat is possibleânot to have run away.
I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life.
The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understandingâthat existence is a struggle.
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
He who would live must fight, he who will not fight in this world where eternal struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.
The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.
Unfortunately this earth is not. . . a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.
And with unwearied fingers drawing out The lines of life, from living knowledge hid.
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
When Croft's "Life of Dr. Young" was spoken of as a good imitation of Dr. Johnson's style, "No, no," said he, "it is not a good imitation of Johnson; it has all his pomp without his force; it has all the nodosities of the oak, without its strength; it has all the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration."
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. â¢George S. Patton Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. â¢Benjamin Disraeli Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. â¢William Feather All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. â¢Mark Twain The reward of a thing well done is having done it. â¢Ralph Waldo Emerson It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. â¢Joseph Ross Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get. â¢Dave Gardner If at first you don't succeed, assassinate everyone who knows you failed. â¢Anonymous The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success. â¢Elbert Hubbard Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible. â¢James W. Pence The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. â¢Vince Lombardi or â¢Donald Kendall The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Irving Berlin The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. â¢Nelson Boswell The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. â¢Jean Giraudoux I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. â¢Bill Cosby Why be a man when you can be a success? â¢Bertold Brecht For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. â¢Richard Feynman Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
Nothing fails like success. â¢Gerald Nachman We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? â¢Jean Cocteau Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. â¢Lily Tomlin The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. â¢Nancy Astor For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself. â¢Rita Mae Brown Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. â¢Mark Twain The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already. â¢J.N. Fadenburg Make a success of living by seeing the goal and aiming for it unswervingly. â¢Cecil B. Demille I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. â¢Abraham Lincoln The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made. â¢Groucho Marx Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.
