General Quotes

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Some Notes Worth Keeping

October 17, 2010

General Quotes

Blame no one, expect nothing, do something.
- Bill Parcels - NYJ locker room

Make plans for 100 years, but be ready to die at any moment.  Director of Alive interview "Stranded".

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
~ Friedrich Engels

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four Cs. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
~ Walt Disney

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~ Mark Twain

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away."
~ Abraham Lincoln

"Speak softly and carry a big stick. . . . "
~ Theodore Roosevelt

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.