Quotes January 06, 2018

“Barack Obama is the best thing ever to happen to black nerds. Up until Obama, it was basically Urkel. Other than that, we had no role models. So he made us cool.” 
Jordan Peele
 
 
 
 
“Surround yourself with people who inspire you and return the favor by giving them the best of you.” 
 Jenny McCarthy
 
 
 
 
To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
John Quincy Adams,
6th US president
 
 
 
 
“Change is only a good thing if you change in a good way.”
Malcolm X
 
 
 
 
If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it’s within your reach. And it’ll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build.
Steve Wozniak,
engineer and entrepreneur
 
 
 
 
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy,
political leader
 
 
 
 

Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin,
writer
 
 
 
 
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.
Stephen R. Covey,
writer and educator
 
 
 
 
True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
Khaled Hosseini
 
 
 
 
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
 
 
 
 
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke,
statesman and philosopher
 
 
 
 
“My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place – police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.”
Sidney Sheldon