Quotes January 05, 2023

I don’t want to climb another mountain. I want instead to sit in a sunny field and admire the very gifted women — and OK, some men too — who will be taking my place.
Barbara Walters,
broadcast journalist, television personality
1929-2022
 
 
 
 
The ambition should always be to play an elegant game.
If I could do it over again, I wouldn’t change many things. Not for myself.
Pele (Edson Arantes do Nascimento),
professional football player, minister of sports of Brazil
1940-2022
 
 
 
 
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”
Benjamin Franklin
 
 
 
 
“Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.”
Erich Fromm
 
 
 
 
“What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.”
William Wordsworth
 
 
 
 
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”
Henry Ford
 
 
 
 
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
Steve Jobs
 
 
 
 
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
TS Eliot
 
 
 
 
“The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off—it’s with you all the time.”
Alvin Ailey
 
 
 
 
“Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.”
Teddy Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives … not looking for flaws, but for potential.
Ellen Goodman,
journalist, columnist, speaker, commentator
 
 
 
 
If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.
Beyonce – Singer-Songwriter-Actress
 
 
 
 
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
Nikki Giovanni – Poet-Writer-Civil Rights Movement Supporter
 
 
 
 
The best time for new beginnings is now.
Unknown