Category: Quotes

• Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t–you’re right.
• Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
• Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t—you’re right.
• Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.
• You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
• My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
• Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.
• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
• If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
• Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

• As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
• Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
• The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
• Success can be attained in any branch of human labor. There is always room at the top in every pursuit. Concentrate all your thought and energy upon the performance of your duties.
• I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
• Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
• He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
• Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
• I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
• No man can become rich without himself enriching others.

• Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
• I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.
• My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
• You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.
• To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don’t isolate.
• Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
• Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.
• Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.
• You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
• Every time I feel tired while I am exercising and training, I close my eyes to see that picture, to see that list with my name. This usually motivates me to work again.

• Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.
• Always predict the worst, and you’ll be hailed as a prophet.
• I find that if you take the various popular song forms to their logical extremes, you can arrive at almost anything from the ridiculous to the obscene-or, as they say in New York, sophisticated.
• If you asked me to write a rock song or a rap song, I couldn’t do it because they’re not in my fingers.
• I’m not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they’re in the style of songs that I grew up with.
• We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.
• Well I wasn’t really attacking the religious beliefs, I was attacking the formality of the rituals of the Catholic church; however, people took it wrongly.
• If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.
• The people who came to hear me perform or to buy my records were not the type who would be offended. But I gather that there were other people who were offended.
• I’m very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I’m pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say ‘hmm’, for example.

• Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
• Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
• To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
• Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
• The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
• Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
• A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
• I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
• It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

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• Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.
• “Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.
• Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.
• Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty years, but if someone asked my occupation, I’d say writer, even if I’d never sold a word. Writers write. Other people talk.
• The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
• America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.
• My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket.
• Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.
• Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can’t come to the game without music, then they should stay home.

• In a way, you’ve already won in this world because you’re the only one who can be you.
• The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.
• You can’t really love someone else unless you really love yourself first.
• Imagining something may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.
• I’m proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you had ever done.
• There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.
• Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak.
• Whatever we choose to imagine can be as private as we want it to be. Nobody knows what you’re thinking or feeling unless you share it.
• Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.
• Even though no human being is perfect, we always have the chance to bring what’s unique about us to life in a redeeming way.

• Trust is like a vase… once it’s broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.
• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.
• Our lives improve only when we take chances – and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
• Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.
• We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone – but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
• Anxiety and fear produce energy. Where we focus that energy noticeably affects the quality of our lives: focus on the solution, not the problem.
• I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty.
• Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.
• True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.
• I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.

• Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities – always see them, for they’re always there.
• Don’t duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done—it’s downhill from then on.
• Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.
• I’ve got great faith in the essential fairness and decency — you may say goodness — of the human being.
• People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
• The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
• We’ve all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it’s more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.
• Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
• Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
• It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

• There’s only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sounds egotistical, but it’s actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.
• Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
• I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!
• Would anyone, either Jew or non-Jew, understand this about me, that I am simply a young girl badly in need of some rollicking fun?
• I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
• We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
• Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
• Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.
• Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will still bring you happiness again, as long as you live. As long as you can look fearlessly up into the heavens, as long as you know that you are pure within, and that you will still find happiness.
• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.